Q1 FINAL Review
Write an essay on whether USA should expand their usage of ranked choice voting (sometimes known as instant run off elections) in elections.
Source A (overview) - Ballotpedia intro to ranked choice voting
Source B - VIDEO intro into ranked choice voting process
Source C - ranked choice - pros + cons
Source D (case study of France) - If we are abolishing the electoral college, let's also move to ranked choice voting for the President
Pro, Source E - Ranked Choice is Already Changing Politics for the Better
Con; Source F - Ranked Choice Voting is Not the Solution
Source G (case study Maine) - How Maine's Ranked Choice Voting System Works
Write an essay on whether USA should expand their usage of ranked choice voting (sometimes known as instant run off elections) in elections.
Source A (overview) - Ballotpedia intro to ranked choice voting
Source B - VIDEO intro into ranked choice voting process
Source C - ranked choice - pros + cons
Source D (case study of France) - If we are abolishing the electoral college, let's also move to ranked choice voting for the President
Pro, Source E - Ranked Choice is Already Changing Politics for the Better
Con; Source F - Ranked Choice Voting is Not the Solution
Source G (case study Maine) - How Maine's Ranked Choice Voting System Works
Q1/Q3 Final Review Sample Prompt (REPARATIONS)
OPTION ONE: Reparations: Take a position (pro or con) on implementing reparations for past historical injustices. Write an essay in which you consider the factors deserve the most consideration and most effectively help to support your position.
SOURCE A - VIDEO - Kamau Bell's episode on reparations (shown in class)
SOURCE B - overview with multiple sources - Reparations: A Short Overview
SOURCE C - case studies of reparations globally - The world's long history of reparations
SOURCE D - pro - The Case for Considering Reparations (Coates)
SOURCE E - pro; responds to Source D - A white Republican's take on reparations (he's for it)
SOURCE F - con; responds to Source D - The Case against Reparations
SOURCE G - VIDEO on broader issue - A video intro to wealth inequality in America
OTHER SOURCES:
Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Testimony on Reparations (or the video of his testimony)
All Ta-Nehisi Coates writings for The Atlantic magazine
or Read the Best of Coates
My Testimony on Reparations written by Coleman Hughes
What reparations mean to one American family (Japanese internment)
NY Times: The 1619 project (awarding winning 2019 collection of writings on legacy of slavery)
NY Times' Brent Staples writings on race in 2018 that won him the 2019 Pulitzer Prize
& his 2001 article The Slave Reparations Movement Adopts the Rhetoric of Victimhood
The Other Case against Reparations
The Impossibility of Reparations - Considering the single most important question about racial restitution: How would it work?
America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went. - does deal with Native Americans & Rosewood, Florida, etc
1997 = Vatican Gives Formal Apology for Inaction During Holocaust
What US slavery reparations and post-Holocaust Germany have in common
What Canada and South African can teach US about slavery reparations - consider "Truth and Reconciliation Committees"
How Germany Should Respond to $1.2 Trillion Reparations Claims
World War I reparations
a related possible Q1 synthesis topic: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
Elon Musk view on UBI and automation
CBS SUNDAY MORNING: TESTING OUT UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
another related topic
9/11 widows & payments for Deepwater Horizon spill payments: FREAKONOMICS podcast - who determines how much a life is worth
or the Uncivil podcast: The Assets
OPTION ONE: Reparations: Take a position (pro or con) on implementing reparations for past historical injustices. Write an essay in which you consider the factors deserve the most consideration and most effectively help to support your position.
SOURCE A - VIDEO - Kamau Bell's episode on reparations (shown in class)
SOURCE B - overview with multiple sources - Reparations: A Short Overview
SOURCE C - case studies of reparations globally - The world's long history of reparations
SOURCE D - pro - The Case for Considering Reparations (Coates)
SOURCE E - pro; responds to Source D - A white Republican's take on reparations (he's for it)
SOURCE F - con; responds to Source D - The Case against Reparations
SOURCE G - VIDEO on broader issue - A video intro to wealth inequality in America
OTHER SOURCES:
Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Testimony on Reparations (or the video of his testimony)
All Ta-Nehisi Coates writings for The Atlantic magazine
or Read the Best of Coates
My Testimony on Reparations written by Coleman Hughes
What reparations mean to one American family (Japanese internment)
NY Times: The 1619 project (awarding winning 2019 collection of writings on legacy of slavery)
NY Times' Brent Staples writings on race in 2018 that won him the 2019 Pulitzer Prize
& his 2001 article The Slave Reparations Movement Adopts the Rhetoric of Victimhood
The Other Case against Reparations
The Impossibility of Reparations - Considering the single most important question about racial restitution: How would it work?
America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went. - does deal with Native Americans & Rosewood, Florida, etc
1997 = Vatican Gives Formal Apology for Inaction During Holocaust
What US slavery reparations and post-Holocaust Germany have in common
What Canada and South African can teach US about slavery reparations - consider "Truth and Reconciliation Committees"
How Germany Should Respond to $1.2 Trillion Reparations Claims
World War I reparations
a related possible Q1 synthesis topic: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
Elon Musk view on UBI and automation
CBS SUNDAY MORNING: TESTING OUT UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
another related topic
9/11 widows & payments for Deepwater Horizon spill payments: FREAKONOMICS podcast - who determines how much a life is worth
or the Uncivil podcast: The Assets
PRIOR LECTURE/VIDEO OVERVIEWS ON
Q1 web.microsoftstream.com/video/8fe30ec4-984d-4d6f-a4f0-a9a31b1869c3
Q2 web.microsoftstream.com/video/5c4cffcd-be22-4360-aca8-ee521189faf6
Q3 web.microsoftstream.com/video/568fbaa0-b7d8-4faa-ada3-2b3de90c0704
May 10 review (essays)
May 11 review (exam overall + mult choice)
Q1 web.microsoftstream.com/video/8fe30ec4-984d-4d6f-a4f0-a9a31b1869c3
Q2 web.microsoftstream.com/video/5c4cffcd-be22-4360-aca8-ee521189faf6
Q3 web.microsoftstream.com/video/568fbaa0-b7d8-4faa-ada3-2b3de90c0704
May 10 review (essays)
May 11 review (exam overall + mult choice)
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1996 Q2 + Q3 - consult https://www.matermiddlehigh.org/ourpages/auto/2010/1/25/34429805/1996%20AP%20English%20Language%20and%20Composition%20Free%20Response%20Questions%20_2.pdf for brainstorming framework for Q2 from 1996
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pg 10+11 in 2016 Q2 exam with Thatcher's eulogy for Ronald Reagan https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B04AA4i4sOu8MmVzcnNESGJsYXc/view?usp=sharing THEN may want to read pg 4-? on student performance/expectations for the prompt before starting https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B04AA4i4sOu8WjhVYTJsT21HT1U/view?usp=sharing THEN Sample essays 2A and 2B both did well with the passage if you want to look to style/approach before starting https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B04AA4i4sOu8aUt4VlU1YnBXaWc/view?usp=sharing
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MAIN FINAL Q1 REVIEW PASSAGE = 2013 International Exam (GMO FOODS)
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FINAL REVIEW Q1 (shifting school start times)
We'll do together:
High School Start Times Q1 prompt/claims (a possible podcast episode idea)
Prompt = In a well written essay, explore the factors you find most important to consider when determining whether to move high school start times should have stayed at 730am OR if it was wise to move it this year to 830am (aka later).
GOOGLE FORM SURVEY - do it after reading below doc
Victoria Adams on school start times
We'll do together:
High School Start Times Q1 prompt/claims (a possible podcast episode idea)
Prompt = In a well written essay, explore the factors you find most important to consider when determining whether to move high school start times should have stayed at 730am OR if it was wise to move it this year to 830am (aka later).
GOOGLE FORM SURVEY - do it after reading below doc
Victoria Adams on school start times
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Tone Classification Test April 1 2021
Style and Tone
Tone Descriptors
Tone and Attitude
SAMPLE: The Odyssey, Homer
"I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland,
To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men,
Who will cut off your nostrils and ears with a sharp bronze sword;
He will tear off your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw."
SAMPLE ANSWER: THREATENING--In this excerpt, one of Homer's characters
makes dire threats against another. The key to classifying a tone as
"threatening" is the possibility or promise of negative action against the
subject. Our particular subject has achieved quite a severe set of
consequences for himself and thus more than merits the designation.
Through the Looking-Glass, Carrol
They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she
was just going round to see if "TWEEDLE" was written at the back of each
collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked "DUM."
"If you think we're wax-works," he said, "you ought to pay, you
know. Wax-works weren't made to be looked at for nothing."
A) pedantic B) whimsical
C) threatening D) sympathetic
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Kesey
She tells them right back in a loud, brassy voice that he's already plenty
damn clean, thank you.
"They showered me this morning at the courthouse and last night at
the jail. And I swear I believe they'd of washed my ears for me on the taxi
over if they coulda found the facilities. Hoo boy, seems like every time
they ship me someplace I gotta get scrubbed down before, after, and during
the operation--and get back away from me with that thermometer, Sam."
Tone Descriptor:
A) disappointed B) condescending
C) amused D) audacious
Multiple Choice#1 - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
"Afterwards we will be as one animal of the forest and be so close
that neither one can tell that one of us is one and not the other. Can you
not feel my heart be your heart?"
A) somber B) urgent
C) factual D) intimate
#2 - Kink, Davies
But I felt after the novelty had worn off the Americans didn't
really understand our music or our culture. Coming from a country where
having central heating was considered posh and a refrigerator a luxury,
Americans seemed to me to be strangely spoiled and 'old-fashioned.' They
seemed to be lost in the forties and fifties. I expected to find Americans
more forward and progressive but I was surprised to find many very set in
their ways, just like their English counterparts.
A) urgent B) disappointed
C) sardonic D) detached
#3 - "God is love," Bowring
God is love; his mercy brightens
All the path in which we rove;
Bliss he wakes and woe he lightens;
God is wisdom, God is love.
A) pedantic B) simpering
C) reverent D) detached
#4 -The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
"There were always children there, and I spent all my time with the
children, only with the children. They were the children of the village
where I lived, a whole gang of them, who went to the local school. I was
simply with them mostly, and I spent all my four years like that. I did not
want anything else."
A) amused B) reflective
C) reverent D) remorseful
#5 - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
Time passed.
Susan waited.
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the
phone. She looked at her watch. She felt that now was about the time that
she could legitimately begin to feel cross. She was cross already, of
course, but that had been in her own time, so to speak. They were well and
truly into his time now, and even allowing for traffic, mishaps, and
general vagueness and dilatoriness, it was now well over half an hour past
the time that he had insisted was the latest time they could possibly
afford to leave, so she'd better be ready.
A) apprehensive B) elegiac
C) disdainful D) threatening
#6 - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
"I am not made," I cried energetically, "the sun and the heavens,
who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the
assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. A
thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved
their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the
whole human race."
A) ominous B) sardonic
C) elegiac D) remorseful
#7 - Dave Barry's Greatest Hits, Barry
You never found out why these men spend so much time shaking hands
[in beer commercials]. Maybe shaking hands is just their simple
straightforward burly masculine American patriotic way of saying to each
other: "Floyd, I am truly sorry I drank all that beer last night and went
to the bathroom in your glove compartment."
Tone Descriptor:
A) bantering B) sympathetic
C) intimate D) disdainful
#8 - The Way Things Work, David Macaulay
The kind of nuclear reaction that happens inside a nuclear reactor
is called nuclear fission. The fuel is uranium or plutonium, two very heavy
elements which have many protons and neutrons in their nuclei. Fission
starts when a fast-moving neutron strikes a nucleus. The nucleus cannot
take in the extra neutron, and the whole nucleus breaks apart into two
smaller nuclei.
Tone Descriptor:
A) provocative B) forlorn
C) detached D) pedantic
#9 - Cannery Row, Steinbeck
Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Henri
had so steeped himself in stories of the Left Bank in Paris that he lived
there although he had never been there. Feverishly he followed in
periodicals the Dadaist movements and schisms, the strangely feminine
jealousies and religiousness, the obscurantisms of the forming and breaking
schools. Regularly he revolted against outworn techniques and materials.
One season he threw out perspective. Another year he abandoned red, even
as the mother of purple. Finally he gave up paint entirely. It was not
known whether Henri was a good painter or not for he threw himself so
violently into movements that he had little time left for painting of any
kind.
Tone Descriptor:
A) reverent B) apprehensive
C) regretful D) amused
#10 - "Send in the Clowns," Sonheim
Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again with my usual flair,
Sure of my lines, No one is there.
Don't you love farce? My fault, I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.
A) ominous B) satiric
C) intimate D) regretful
#11- "Freedom," Ruskin
You will send your child, will you, into a room where the table is
loaded with sweet wine and fruit-some poisoned, some not?-you will say to
him, "Choose freely, my little child! It is so good for you to have freedom
of choice; it forms your character -your individuality! If you take the
wrong cup or the wrong berry, you will die before the day is over, but you
will have acquired the dignity of a Free child."
A) whimsical B) simpering
C) bantering D) sarcastic
#12 - Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
So all of a sudden, I sort of leaned over and said, "Would any of
you girls care to dance?" I didn't ask them crudely or anything. Very
suave, in fact. But God damn it, they thought that was a panic, too. They
started giggling some more. I'm not kidding, they were three real morons.
A) condescending B) persuasive
C) amused D) audacious
Style and Tone
Tone Descriptors
Tone and Attitude
SAMPLE: The Odyssey, Homer
"I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland,
To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men,
Who will cut off your nostrils and ears with a sharp bronze sword;
He will tear off your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw."
SAMPLE ANSWER: THREATENING--In this excerpt, one of Homer's characters
makes dire threats against another. The key to classifying a tone as
"threatening" is the possibility or promise of negative action against the
subject. Our particular subject has achieved quite a severe set of
consequences for himself and thus more than merits the designation.
Through the Looking-Glass, Carrol
They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she
was just going round to see if "TWEEDLE" was written at the back of each
collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked "DUM."
"If you think we're wax-works," he said, "you ought to pay, you
know. Wax-works weren't made to be looked at for nothing."
A) pedantic B) whimsical
C) threatening D) sympathetic
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Kesey
She tells them right back in a loud, brassy voice that he's already plenty
damn clean, thank you.
"They showered me this morning at the courthouse and last night at
the jail. And I swear I believe they'd of washed my ears for me on the taxi
over if they coulda found the facilities. Hoo boy, seems like every time
they ship me someplace I gotta get scrubbed down before, after, and during
the operation--and get back away from me with that thermometer, Sam."
Tone Descriptor:
A) disappointed B) condescending
C) amused D) audacious
Multiple Choice#1 - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
"Afterwards we will be as one animal of the forest and be so close
that neither one can tell that one of us is one and not the other. Can you
not feel my heart be your heart?"
A) somber B) urgent
C) factual D) intimate
#2 - Kink, Davies
But I felt after the novelty had worn off the Americans didn't
really understand our music or our culture. Coming from a country where
having central heating was considered posh and a refrigerator a luxury,
Americans seemed to me to be strangely spoiled and 'old-fashioned.' They
seemed to be lost in the forties and fifties. I expected to find Americans
more forward and progressive but I was surprised to find many very set in
their ways, just like their English counterparts.
A) urgent B) disappointed
C) sardonic D) detached
#3 - "God is love," Bowring
God is love; his mercy brightens
All the path in which we rove;
Bliss he wakes and woe he lightens;
God is wisdom, God is love.
A) pedantic B) simpering
C) reverent D) detached
#4 -The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
"There were always children there, and I spent all my time with the
children, only with the children. They were the children of the village
where I lived, a whole gang of them, who went to the local school. I was
simply with them mostly, and I spent all my four years like that. I did not
want anything else."
A) amused B) reflective
C) reverent D) remorseful
#5 - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
Time passed.
Susan waited.
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the
phone. She looked at her watch. She felt that now was about the time that
she could legitimately begin to feel cross. She was cross already, of
course, but that had been in her own time, so to speak. They were well and
truly into his time now, and even allowing for traffic, mishaps, and
general vagueness and dilatoriness, it was now well over half an hour past
the time that he had insisted was the latest time they could possibly
afford to leave, so she'd better be ready.
A) apprehensive B) elegiac
C) disdainful D) threatening
#6 - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
"I am not made," I cried energetically, "the sun and the heavens,
who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the
assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. A
thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved
their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the
whole human race."
A) ominous B) sardonic
C) elegiac D) remorseful
#7 - Dave Barry's Greatest Hits, Barry
You never found out why these men spend so much time shaking hands
[in beer commercials]. Maybe shaking hands is just their simple
straightforward burly masculine American patriotic way of saying to each
other: "Floyd, I am truly sorry I drank all that beer last night and went
to the bathroom in your glove compartment."
Tone Descriptor:
A) bantering B) sympathetic
C) intimate D) disdainful
#8 - The Way Things Work, David Macaulay
The kind of nuclear reaction that happens inside a nuclear reactor
is called nuclear fission. The fuel is uranium or plutonium, two very heavy
elements which have many protons and neutrons in their nuclei. Fission
starts when a fast-moving neutron strikes a nucleus. The nucleus cannot
take in the extra neutron, and the whole nucleus breaks apart into two
smaller nuclei.
Tone Descriptor:
A) provocative B) forlorn
C) detached D) pedantic
#9 - Cannery Row, Steinbeck
Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Henri
had so steeped himself in stories of the Left Bank in Paris that he lived
there although he had never been there. Feverishly he followed in
periodicals the Dadaist movements and schisms, the strangely feminine
jealousies and religiousness, the obscurantisms of the forming and breaking
schools. Regularly he revolted against outworn techniques and materials.
One season he threw out perspective. Another year he abandoned red, even
as the mother of purple. Finally he gave up paint entirely. It was not
known whether Henri was a good painter or not for he threw himself so
violently into movements that he had little time left for painting of any
kind.
Tone Descriptor:
A) reverent B) apprehensive
C) regretful D) amused
#10 - "Send in the Clowns," Sonheim
Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again with my usual flair,
Sure of my lines, No one is there.
Don't you love farce? My fault, I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.
A) ominous B) satiric
C) intimate D) regretful
#11- "Freedom," Ruskin
You will send your child, will you, into a room where the table is
loaded with sweet wine and fruit-some poisoned, some not?-you will say to
him, "Choose freely, my little child! It is so good for you to have freedom
of choice; it forms your character -your individuality! If you take the
wrong cup or the wrong berry, you will die before the day is over, but you
will have acquired the dignity of a Free child."
A) whimsical B) simpering
C) bantering D) sarcastic
#12 - Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
So all of a sudden, I sort of leaned over and said, "Would any of
you girls care to dance?" I didn't ask them crudely or anything. Very
suave, in fact. But God damn it, they thought that was a panic, too. They
started giggling some more. I'm not kidding, they were three real morons.
A) condescending B) persuasive
C) amused D) audacious
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Due Oct 13 2020 = Answer the 9 questions in the passage/pdf above if your missed the Modest Proposal mult choice
Submit your answers to the Modest Proposal form HERE
Submit your answers to the Modest Proposal form HERE
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PODCAST OFFICIAL SUBMISSION FORM (due 3/9 by 1159pm; 25 pts)
all your Podcast submissions from the above form (if you wish to listen to other classes)
all your Podcast submissions from the above form (if you wish to listen to other classes)
March 3 (Baldwin vs Buckley debate on race)
GOOGLE FORM on what you find in the debate (5+ pts)
James Baldwin focused recent documentary I Am Not Your Negro (on hoopla; access with your Volusia County library card)
TED video - Notes on a Native Son - James Baldwin
2 min James Baldwin clip/response to "why must we always concentrate on color"
CAN READ DURING VIDEO/DEBATE:
1) The Famous Baldwin-Buckley Debate Still Matters Today
2) Baldwin vs. Buckley: A Debate We Shouldn’t Need, As Important As Ever
3) Why Baldwin Beat Buckley (540 to 160; NOTE: Malcolm X died 3 days after this debate)
4) How Baldwin Won The Debate
5) The legendary debate that laid down US political lines on race, justice and history
Writing Tips from James Baldwin
shown in class 3/3: Historic debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" or a second link/version
The most quoted line from “A Talk to Teachers” may be this one: “The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
James Baldwin essays to read:
Stranger in the Village
A Talk To Teachers
Notes of a Native Son
Podcasts on these issues
The Lynching of Claude Neal (in Florida)
The Birth of a "New Negro" - on Alain Locke (who is a similar figure to James Baldwin)
Try the "13th" documentary on Netflix too
GOOGLE FORM on what you find in the debate (5+ pts)
James Baldwin focused recent documentary I Am Not Your Negro (on hoopla; access with your Volusia County library card)
TED video - Notes on a Native Son - James Baldwin
2 min James Baldwin clip/response to "why must we always concentrate on color"
CAN READ DURING VIDEO/DEBATE:
1) The Famous Baldwin-Buckley Debate Still Matters Today
2) Baldwin vs. Buckley: A Debate We Shouldn’t Need, As Important As Ever
3) Why Baldwin Beat Buckley (540 to 160; NOTE: Malcolm X died 3 days after this debate)
4) How Baldwin Won The Debate
5) The legendary debate that laid down US political lines on race, justice and history
Writing Tips from James Baldwin
shown in class 3/3: Historic debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" or a second link/version
The most quoted line from “A Talk to Teachers” may be this one: “The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
James Baldwin essays to read:
Stranger in the Village
A Talk To Teachers
Notes of a Native Son
Podcasts on these issues
The Lynching of Claude Neal (in Florida)
The Birth of a "New Negro" - on Alain Locke (who is a similar figure to James Baldwin)
Try the "13th" documentary on Netflix too
Deadline March 31 (optional) to submit Letter to Editor to NY Times contest
main site is HERE
& Students ages 16-19 can submit their own entries using our Student Submission Form, if they want.
main site is HERE
& Students ages 16-19 can submit their own entries using our Student Submission Form, if they want.
Due Tues:
Documentary Film Exploration/watching (as a way to prep for topics for a Podcast episode)
FEB 11 = Discussion/Presentation Day on the documentary/film you chose (does not intend to overlap with your choice for movie review writing task)
The full list of movie/documentary suggestions to watch
&
The easily streamable list of documentaries (Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Hoopla, HBO, etc)
Google Doc RESERVATION/SIGNUPS for your Movie/Documentary
Feb 11 task - 2 min- Address why your documentary film has value (or who should watch it & briefly what it was about) AND how the issue of your documentary might show up as an AP Lang Q1 or Q3 exam topic (or make a prompt from your documentary "Write an essay in which you take a position OR explore the factors one should consider when X")
Documentary Film Exploration/watching (as a way to prep for topics for a Podcast episode)
FEB 11 = Discussion/Presentation Day on the documentary/film you chose (does not intend to overlap with your choice for movie review writing task)
The full list of movie/documentary suggestions to watch
&
The easily streamable list of documentaries (Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Hoopla, HBO, etc)
Google Doc RESERVATION/SIGNUPS for your Movie/Documentary
Feb 11 task - 2 min- Address why your documentary film has value (or who should watch it & briefly what it was about) AND how the issue of your documentary might show up as an AP Lang Q1 or Q3 exam topic (or make a prompt from your documentary "Write an essay in which you take a position OR explore the factors one should consider when X")
Writing a Letter to the Editor Due Feb7
(Word count = expectation is 250 words; if you are entering NY Times Contest your max is 450 words & need 2 sources in works cited)
submit it to our Turnitin.com class; peer edits will be done Monday; feedback will be done on the document in Turnitin; 40 points; DUE: Feb 7 midnight)
Google form Grade for TUESDAY Feb 4
Options:
1) Response editorial: pick a recent article from a major magazine/newspaper (anywhere below) and write a direct response to it (pro/extension vs rebuttal/rejection vs clarification/recontextualization/reapplications) that is persuasive of your viewpoint on the topic OR Look through local news sources for either a NEWS article that interests you or a COMMENTARY piece (letter, cartoon, editorial, or commentary) that you read and have a reaction to. & Read this piece thoroughly and think through your opinion.
2) Opinion editorial : pick a recent social debate/issue (or something that upsets you or needs social action/awareness) and write an argumentative/persuasive essay as though to a local newspaper. Consider local, national, global topics & topics that might be a good AP Lang Q1.
3) Specific/open letter: Do a letter to the school board, principal, President/congressperson, a corporation, etc OR do an open letter (personal manifesto)
NOTE: There is a NY Times Annual Student Editorial Contest (max 450 words; due March 31, 2020)
The winning entries from 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. See rubric in below image. Contest main rule: You can write your editorial about any topic you like, as long as you use at least one source from The Times. Have an opinion. Editorials are different from news articles because they try to persuade readers to share your point of view. Don’t be afraid to take a stand.& Be original and use appropriate language. Write for a well-informed audience, but include enough background information to give context.
Consider your audience (the readership of the newspaper, the specific target of the letter)
Consider forms of appeals, rhetorical strategies, how to make a call to action, how to do effective social protest
NY Times - How to Write and Editorial 2 min video
TIPS for writing a letter to an editor
another set of Tips
TED video on how to create political change through letter writing
Consider elements in a letter to the editor such as direct appeal to your audience, appeals to experts, appeals to tradition, concessions to the opposing viewpoint, anecdotes, quotations, analogy/metaphors, cause & effect, comparison/contrast, control/definitions of terms of debate, framing the context, logos/ethos/pathos (try to build your credibility to speak (aka ethos), hyperbole, humor, shaming, implied threat/invective, rhetorical questions, the identification of common ground/common cause/common values,allusions, concrete examples (or use a case study), parallelism, see the 5 canons of rhetoric on main page of website (particularly consider arrangement/sequence), use of 1st person, sentence length variation, chiasmus, paragraphing, use of firstly, secondly... therefore, thusly
A letter to the editor:
Your letter should include:
Claim:
Reasons:
Evidence:
Explanation/Warrant:
Counter:
Concession:
Rebuttal:
Call to action:
The structure of a successful letter tends to have:
Magazine/Print Content of AP LANG Interest (also check who @SCHSTOK is following on twitter)
NEWSPAPERS:
Daytona Beach News-Journal - opinion section AND how to submit a letters to the editor
Volusia Hometown News - letters to the editor & how to submit
Washington Post - letters to the editor & how to submit one
The New York Times - letters to the editor & how to submit one
Tampa Bay Times - letters to the editor & how to submit one
LA Times - letter to the editor & how to submit one
The Guardian UK
MAGAZINES:
Arts & Letters Daily - not exactly current news articles but is useful for AP Lang
The Economist
The Atlantic Online & THEIR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The New Yorker
The New Atlantis
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Independent
Utne Reader
Harper's Magazine
NPR: National Public Radio
13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
Scientific American
Science Daily
Discover Magazine
New Scientist
news @ nature.com
Psychology Today
Big Think
Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Forbes, The Economist, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Harper’s, and Scientific American
The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, The National Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The State, The Herald-Journal, The Post and Courier, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post
Samples of short letters to an editor:
Handwriting article
Examples of recent letters to editor in Volusia on Q1/Q3 topics:
School Choice debate
for SCHS based issues consider looking at past school climate survey results HERE
NEW letter to the editor on tax revenue - this is pretty clearly over 250 words
NY Times editorial contest rubric:
(Word count = expectation is 250 words; if you are entering NY Times Contest your max is 450 words & need 2 sources in works cited)
submit it to our Turnitin.com class; peer edits will be done Monday; feedback will be done on the document in Turnitin; 40 points; DUE: Feb 7 midnight)
Google form Grade for TUESDAY Feb 4
Options:
1) Response editorial: pick a recent article from a major magazine/newspaper (anywhere below) and write a direct response to it (pro/extension vs rebuttal/rejection vs clarification/recontextualization/reapplications) that is persuasive of your viewpoint on the topic OR Look through local news sources for either a NEWS article that interests you or a COMMENTARY piece (letter, cartoon, editorial, or commentary) that you read and have a reaction to. & Read this piece thoroughly and think through your opinion.
2) Opinion editorial : pick a recent social debate/issue (or something that upsets you or needs social action/awareness) and write an argumentative/persuasive essay as though to a local newspaper. Consider local, national, global topics & topics that might be a good AP Lang Q1.
3) Specific/open letter: Do a letter to the school board, principal, President/congressperson, a corporation, etc OR do an open letter (personal manifesto)
NOTE: There is a NY Times Annual Student Editorial Contest (max 450 words; due March 31, 2020)
The winning entries from 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. See rubric in below image. Contest main rule: You can write your editorial about any topic you like, as long as you use at least one source from The Times. Have an opinion. Editorials are different from news articles because they try to persuade readers to share your point of view. Don’t be afraid to take a stand.& Be original and use appropriate language. Write for a well-informed audience, but include enough background information to give context.
Consider your audience (the readership of the newspaper, the specific target of the letter)
Consider forms of appeals, rhetorical strategies, how to make a call to action, how to do effective social protest
NY Times - How to Write and Editorial 2 min video
TIPS for writing a letter to an editor
another set of Tips
TED video on how to create political change through letter writing
Consider elements in a letter to the editor such as direct appeal to your audience, appeals to experts, appeals to tradition, concessions to the opposing viewpoint, anecdotes, quotations, analogy/metaphors, cause & effect, comparison/contrast, control/definitions of terms of debate, framing the context, logos/ethos/pathos (try to build your credibility to speak (aka ethos), hyperbole, humor, shaming, implied threat/invective, rhetorical questions, the identification of common ground/common cause/common values,allusions, concrete examples (or use a case study), parallelism, see the 5 canons of rhetoric on main page of website (particularly consider arrangement/sequence), use of 1st person, sentence length variation, chiasmus, paragraphing, use of firstly, secondly... therefore, thusly
A letter to the editor:
- Has a purpose: agree with something, disagree, or add information that the article left out
- Has a summary or mention of the article it refers to
- Highly edited: every word has a purpose
- Includes the elements of an argument
- Facts and stats to back up claim
- Rhetorical questions
- Allusion
- Specific details
- parallel structure
- Description
- Repetition
- Persuasive appeals (ethos, logos, pathos)
- Has a call to action
- Has a specific tone appropriate to its purpose
Your letter should include:
Claim:
Reasons:
Evidence:
Explanation/Warrant:
Counter:
Concession:
Rebuttal:
Call to action:
The structure of a successful letter tends to have:
- A statement of the position you are responding to (someone else’s)
- A statement of your opposing or strengthening position
- Citation of credible evidence to defend your claim
- An explanation of why your position is stronger than the other(s)
- To be able to access and read closely from national and local news sites
- To have an opinion on something that matters to them
- To defend it using the elements of argument
- To demonstrate their knowledge of basic rhetorical strategies by employing them in their own writing
Magazine/Print Content of AP LANG Interest (also check who @SCHSTOK is following on twitter)
NEWSPAPERS:
Daytona Beach News-Journal - opinion section AND how to submit a letters to the editor
Volusia Hometown News - letters to the editor & how to submit
Washington Post - letters to the editor & how to submit one
The New York Times - letters to the editor & how to submit one
Tampa Bay Times - letters to the editor & how to submit one
LA Times - letter to the editor & how to submit one
The Guardian UK
MAGAZINES:
Arts & Letters Daily - not exactly current news articles but is useful for AP Lang
The Economist
The Atlantic Online & THEIR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The New Yorker
The New Atlantis
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Independent
Utne Reader
Harper's Magazine
NPR: National Public Radio
13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
Scientific American
Science Daily
Discover Magazine
New Scientist
news @ nature.com
Psychology Today
Big Think
Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Forbes, The Economist, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Harper’s, and Scientific American
The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, The National Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The State, The Herald-Journal, The Post and Courier, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post
Samples of short letters to an editor:
Handwriting article
Examples of recent letters to editor in Volusia on Q1/Q3 topics:
School Choice debate
for SCHS based issues consider looking at past school climate survey results HERE
NEW letter to the editor on tax revenue - this is pretty clearly over 250 words
NY Times editorial contest rubric:
Feb 4 2020: High School Start Times Q1 prompt/claims (a possible podcast episode idea)
Prompt = In a well written essay, explore the factors you find most important to consider when determining whether to move high school start times to something later than 730am.
GOOGLE FORM SURVEY - do it after reading below doc
Prompt = In a well written essay, explore the factors you find most important to consider when determining whether to move high school start times to something later than 730am.
GOOGLE FORM SURVEY - do it after reading below doc
q1_practice_on_volusia_school_start_times_feb2020_version.docx | |
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MOVIE / MUSIC Review Writing Task Due Feb7
Write a 250+ word (can go over 500) review/critique of your favorite (or least favorite or most complex relationship with) MOVIE or ALBUM. Submit it to our Turnitin.com class; feedback will be done on the document in Turnitin; writing & peer edit day Monday (somewhat Wednesday); assignment due by midnight Feb 7; we may do a peer eval/edit activity on Feb 10; article/review = 40 points
- you should title your article (this can be fun)
- not required, but can use a five star rating system (or come up with your own system)
- I would encourage a 3-4 paragraph journalistic/essay style but you can go with your own style
- I would encourage use to use 1+ allusions (to related artists/movies, historical precedents, etc) AND 1+ quote from the album/movie
- make value judgments; don't be afraid of 1st person; don't be afraid to cite or call out other critic reviews you disagree with in your review; you can have a sense of humor; you need to have a point of view
- the voice can be rather sassy, critical, gushingly loving. You can look to historical precedents or allude to similar movies/musicians/etc.
- maintain some balance between the forest (big picture questions about art or the totality of this artist/director) and the trees (citing individual songs/lyrics)
- You can consider the elements of music (album sequence, pace/melody/harmony/etc (formal elements of music), instruments used, artist persona or public image, how it fits into the arc of their career, album highlights/lowlights, social commentary, the overall unity of the album (is it a concept album)) OR movies (cinematography, the soundtrack, the plotting, the individual actor performances, visual effects/CGI, best scenes/quotes, thematic elements or social commentary, how it fits in the filmmaker's oeuvre/career, perhaps the ending, the genre of the film, film editing,
MUSIC Reviews samples:
pick a recent album review at Pitchfork - generally the closest to our desired style/length
Rolling Stone mag reviews
Consequence of Sound reviews
NME
The most brutal music reviews of all time OR sassy segments from the most negative reviews ever (is a 15 part slideshow)
The 15 most significant Pitchfork reviews
The 25 Songs that Matter Right Now (rather well written model unpacking from individual song titles)
Styles of Reviews:
a sort of bullet list (non-narrative) & Attacking review (Lil Pump) OR Hozier's new album review has a nicely hostile start
a narrative style using paragraphs & a positive review (Solange) - but is 1000 words
TWO historic perfect scoring Pitchfork album reviews: Radiohead's Kid A and Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Rohol's album reviews back in high school (1994) for a Pearl Jam and REM album
MOVIE Reviews samples:
Orlando Sentinel movie reviews
Daytona News Journal movie reviews
Metacritic reviews - pick a movie, look under critic reviews; then click a "read full review"
NPR movie reviews
Look for a historic movie review written by Roger Ebert (dead now, but was likely the most famous critic)
13 most essential reviews by Roger Ebert
Ebert's glowing review of 1994's Hoop Dreams documentary
Pick a Rotten Tomatoes approved critic (and then pick a review and then click "read more")
NOTE: you can pick a streamable movie with some TOK/AP Lang utility from this list
(if you wish to do an artist/director profile piece instead see Rohol)
Write a 250+ word (can go over 500) review/critique of your favorite (or least favorite or most complex relationship with) MOVIE or ALBUM. Submit it to our Turnitin.com class; feedback will be done on the document in Turnitin; writing & peer edit day Monday (somewhat Wednesday); assignment due by midnight Feb 7; we may do a peer eval/edit activity on Feb 10; article/review = 40 points
- you should title your article (this can be fun)
- not required, but can use a five star rating system (or come up with your own system)
- I would encourage a 3-4 paragraph journalistic/essay style but you can go with your own style
- I would encourage use to use 1+ allusions (to related artists/movies, historical precedents, etc) AND 1+ quote from the album/movie
- make value judgments; don't be afraid of 1st person; don't be afraid to cite or call out other critic reviews you disagree with in your review; you can have a sense of humor; you need to have a point of view
- the voice can be rather sassy, critical, gushingly loving. You can look to historical precedents or allude to similar movies/musicians/etc.
- maintain some balance between the forest (big picture questions about art or the totality of this artist/director) and the trees (citing individual songs/lyrics)
- You can consider the elements of music (album sequence, pace/melody/harmony/etc (formal elements of music), instruments used, artist persona or public image, how it fits into the arc of their career, album highlights/lowlights, social commentary, the overall unity of the album (is it a concept album)) OR movies (cinematography, the soundtrack, the plotting, the individual actor performances, visual effects/CGI, best scenes/quotes, thematic elements or social commentary, how it fits in the filmmaker's oeuvre/career, perhaps the ending, the genre of the film, film editing,
MUSIC Reviews samples:
pick a recent album review at Pitchfork - generally the closest to our desired style/length
Rolling Stone mag reviews
Consequence of Sound reviews
NME
The most brutal music reviews of all time OR sassy segments from the most negative reviews ever (is a 15 part slideshow)
The 15 most significant Pitchfork reviews
The 25 Songs that Matter Right Now (rather well written model unpacking from individual song titles)
Styles of Reviews:
a sort of bullet list (non-narrative) & Attacking review (Lil Pump) OR Hozier's new album review has a nicely hostile start
a narrative style using paragraphs & a positive review (Solange) - but is 1000 words
TWO historic perfect scoring Pitchfork album reviews: Radiohead's Kid A and Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Rohol's album reviews back in high school (1994) for a Pearl Jam and REM album
MOVIE Reviews samples:
Orlando Sentinel movie reviews
Daytona News Journal movie reviews
Metacritic reviews - pick a movie, look under critic reviews; then click a "read full review"
NPR movie reviews
Look for a historic movie review written by Roger Ebert (dead now, but was likely the most famous critic)
13 most essential reviews by Roger Ebert
Ebert's glowing review of 1994's Hoop Dreams documentary
Pick a Rotten Tomatoes approved critic (and then pick a review and then click "read more")
NOTE: you can pick a streamable movie with some TOK/AP Lang utility from this list
(if you wish to do an artist/director profile piece instead see Rohol)
Jan 31. Submit to turnitin.com your double spaced 500ish word essay (college essay, personal narrative, photograph essay or sense of place essay) & include the word count and exact prompt or essay type when you submit it
Class = 21727047; pass/key = rohol
Jan 30 will be a writing / peer edit / conference&questions with teacher day for this
Class = 21727047; pass/key = rohol
Jan 30 will be a writing / peer edit / conference&questions with teacher day for this
Jan 29 - MLK Strength to Love reading day task/Google form
Once finished, read the Cesar Chavez 2015 Q2 passage, explore or check out your choice of book to read, explore the MLK/Douglass/Wright/DuBois tab on the left or the Podcast tab on the left
Once finished, read the Cesar Chavez 2015 Q2 passage, explore or check out your choice of book to read, explore the MLK/Douglass/Wright/DuBois tab on the left or the Podcast tab on the left
CRITICAL THEORIES articles - 2 day task:
Google Drive - 10 articles on Gatsby from a specific lit crit theory perspective
Crit Theory Options:
1) Deconstructive
2) Feminist
3) LGBTQ/queer theory
4) Marxist
5) New Criticism
6) New Historical
7) Post Colonial or African-American
8) Psychoanalytic
9) Reader Response
10) Structuralist
TASK:
Read your (group's... max 4 person) chosen theory/article
For Fri/tomorrow,
1) report on the central features & examples of questions to ask about a text using this theory - READ YOUR INTRO LINK (depending on what persion # you are in your group)
PERSON 1 = Literary Theory - questions to ask.doc
PERSON 2 = Intro to lit crit - 4 pg handout & Basic Overview of all types of Lit Theory
PERSON 3 = Intro to lit crit - jonathan culler book (download then right click in Adobe to rotate clockwise) & narrative theory cheat sheet
PERSON 4 = read the first page theory overview of your Gatsby lit crit article & the Wikipedia page:
New Criticism - essentially close reading of the factual text (is the main underlying theory behind your actual WA essay)
Formalism
Structuralism/Semiotics or Post-Structuralism
Reader Response - in total conflict with New Criticism
Psychoanalytic literary criticism or another take on it
New Historicism - essentially is the task of or underlying theory behind your WA interactive oral
Deconstructionism Lit Theory (can explore Post-modernism)
Post-Colonial Lit Theory
Marxist Lit Crit
Feminist Lit Crit
Queer Theory
2) report on what 2+ specific things you learned or were led to consider from this perspective's treatment of Gatsby;
3) answer: is this a useful literary theory in general & is this a useful literary theory to analyze Gatsby from
Literary/Narrative Theory website
Intro to Narrative theory
fitz/gatsby summary sheet 2pg
critical articles - 44 pg
F. Scott Fitzgerald pg 5 - Fitz's dislike of critics
Frederick Hoffman pg 7 - a very nice 1pg overview
Malcolm Cowley pg 10 - also a nice 1 pg overview
Douglas Taylor pg 11
R.W. Stallman pg 13 - possibly deepest article; deals some with Gatsby/Christ parallels
E.C. Bufkin pg 18 - on Myrtle + Gatsby connections
Barry Gross pg 20 - the most complimentary view of the book
Keath Fraser pg 27 - on Nick's "sexuality"
on colors pg 33
David O'Rourke pg 40 - on Nick's narrative reliability
Colin Cass pg 41 - some bold ideas about Nick; points out improbabilities in the plot
critical articles - 16 pg
Max Perkins pg 2
John Peale Bishop pg 3
Charles Shain pg 4 - brief nice overview
Cleanth Brooks pg 6 - THE BEST
Leland Person pg 7 - 2nd best
misc critical article
Google Drive - 10 articles on Gatsby from a specific lit crit theory perspective
Crit Theory Options:
1) Deconstructive
2) Feminist
3) LGBTQ/queer theory
4) Marxist
5) New Criticism
6) New Historical
7) Post Colonial or African-American
8) Psychoanalytic
9) Reader Response
10) Structuralist
TASK:
Read your (group's... max 4 person) chosen theory/article
For Fri/tomorrow,
1) report on the central features & examples of questions to ask about a text using this theory - READ YOUR INTRO LINK (depending on what persion # you are in your group)
PERSON 1 = Literary Theory - questions to ask.doc
PERSON 2 = Intro to lit crit - 4 pg handout & Basic Overview of all types of Lit Theory
PERSON 3 = Intro to lit crit - jonathan culler book (download then right click in Adobe to rotate clockwise) & narrative theory cheat sheet
PERSON 4 = read the first page theory overview of your Gatsby lit crit article & the Wikipedia page:
New Criticism - essentially close reading of the factual text (is the main underlying theory behind your actual WA essay)
Formalism
Structuralism/Semiotics or Post-Structuralism
Reader Response - in total conflict with New Criticism
Psychoanalytic literary criticism or another take on it
New Historicism - essentially is the task of or underlying theory behind your WA interactive oral
Deconstructionism Lit Theory (can explore Post-modernism)
Post-Colonial Lit Theory
Marxist Lit Crit
Feminist Lit Crit
Queer Theory
2) report on what 2+ specific things you learned or were led to consider from this perspective's treatment of Gatsby;
3) answer: is this a useful literary theory in general & is this a useful literary theory to analyze Gatsby from
Literary/Narrative Theory website
Intro to Narrative theory
fitz/gatsby summary sheet 2pg
critical articles - 44 pg
F. Scott Fitzgerald pg 5 - Fitz's dislike of critics
Frederick Hoffman pg 7 - a very nice 1pg overview
Malcolm Cowley pg 10 - also a nice 1 pg overview
Douglas Taylor pg 11
R.W. Stallman pg 13 - possibly deepest article; deals some with Gatsby/Christ parallels
E.C. Bufkin pg 18 - on Myrtle + Gatsby connections
Barry Gross pg 20 - the most complimentary view of the book
Keath Fraser pg 27 - on Nick's "sexuality"
on colors pg 33
David O'Rourke pg 40 - on Nick's narrative reliability
Colin Cass pg 41 - some bold ideas about Nick; points out improbabilities in the plot
critical articles - 16 pg
Max Perkins pg 2
John Peale Bishop pg 3
Charles Shain pg 4 - brief nice overview
Cleanth Brooks pg 6 - THE BEST
Leland Person pg 7 - 2nd best
misc critical article
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Jan 14:
4 pg of critic ideas/notes on MID-TERM BREAK (above attachment)
4 pg of critic ideas/notes on MID-TERM BREAK (above attachment)
Dec 5:
2001 Sontag Q+A tips - start pg 4 in PDF
2017 Q3 Hedges/artifice Q+A tips - start pg 8 in PDF
2007 Q3 incentive charitable giving Q+A tips - read pg4 in PDF
2001 Sontag Q+A tips - start pg 4 in PDF
2017 Q3 Hedges/artifice Q+A tips - start pg 8 in PDF
2007 Q3 incentive charitable giving Q+A tips - read pg4 in PDF
Dec 3:
2019 Q3 overrated:
Group 1 - pick a role/job/status/social institution
Group 2 - pick a setting/place
Group 3 - pick a digital space / tech feature or something from contemporary 2019 life / smartphone app
Group 4 - pick an idea/concept/corporation
Group 5 - pick an event/achievement/tradition/ritual/cultural practice/celebrated holiday
Group 6 - do a meta response (attack AP, GPA, Ivy Leagues) or some school context issue/thing
2019 Q3 overrated:
Group 1 - pick a role/job/status/social institution
Group 2 - pick a setting/place
Group 3 - pick a digital space / tech feature or something from contemporary 2019 life / smartphone app
Group 4 - pick an idea/concept/corporation
Group 5 - pick an event/achievement/tradition/ritual/cultural practice/celebrated holiday
Group 6 - do a meta response (attack AP, GPA, Ivy Leagues) or some school context issue/thing
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Prompts 1&3&4 are “closed” or support/challenge/qualify the claim/premise through reading, observation, experience, etc OR they are “to what extent do you agree prompts. Prompt 2 is an “open” prompt.
Prompt 1: When kids cheat on assignments it is because they have been taught that grades outweigh the importance of knowing things.
Prompt 2: What does it mean to “belong” to a place or country or culture? (What factors/features matter most in giving you that sense of belonging. Is a sense of belonging/place inherently a good thing?)
Prompt 3: We give children too many trophies.
Prompt 4:
Prompt 1: When kids cheat on assignments it is because they have been taught that grades outweigh the importance of knowing things.
Prompt 2: What does it mean to “belong” to a place or country or culture? (What factors/features matter most in giving you that sense of belonging. Is a sense of belonging/place inherently a good thing?)
Prompt 3: We give children too many trophies.
Prompt 4:
Q3 intro day Dec 2
pg 8-10 - Q3 new rubric
Q3 intro tips and chief reader advice
2018 Q3 prompt (go to final page 12)
2018 Q3 - chief examiner suggestions -pg14+15
2018 Q3 - read 3C, 3A
2018 Q3 - read E, I, B samples
Argumentation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h2f-u0LoXKrjr2wRV25PbXWhj6KJKOH_/view?usp=sharing
& https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qCa8_uSMDoo2Vx9R1TFdiuh3qTZ6Ow_N/view?usp=sharing
pg 8-10 - Q3 new rubric
Q3 intro tips and chief reader advice
2018 Q3 prompt (go to final page 12)
2018 Q3 - chief examiner suggestions -pg14+15
2018 Q3 - read 3C, 3A
2018 Q3 - read E, I, B samples
Argumentation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h2f-u0LoXKrjr2wRV25PbXWhj6KJKOH_/view?usp=sharing
& https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qCa8_uSMDoo2Vx9R1TFdiuh3qTZ6Ow_N/view?usp=sharing
Independent Reading: Nov 14 to Dec 9:
Pick one (consider reading both):
The Glass Castle full text PDF (check book out from media center book room or see Mrs Murray)
Into the Wild full text PDF (check book out from Rohol)
Dec 12 or 13 TEXT ANALYSIS PRESENTATION (GROUP) SIGNUP - type in on your line (put an X for desired group # for your desired text and then type in your specific interest/topic ... can update the doc until Dec 9. DON'T BE THE 4th person into a specific group without my approval)
(new possibility) Group 8:
Do a comparison contrast with a similar text
Into Thin Air (also by Krakauer) vs Into the Wild
Educated: A Memoir vs The Glass Castle
Pick one (consider reading both):
The Glass Castle full text PDF (check book out from media center book room or see Mrs Murray)
Into the Wild full text PDF (check book out from Rohol)
Dec 12 or 13 TEXT ANALYSIS PRESENTATION (GROUP) SIGNUP - type in on your line (put an X for desired group # for your desired text and then type in your specific interest/topic ... can update the doc until Dec 9. DON'T BE THE 4th person into a specific group without my approval)
(new possibility) Group 8:
Do a comparison contrast with a similar text
Into Thin Air (also by Krakauer) vs Into the Wild
Educated: A Memoir vs The Glass Castle
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MULT CHOICE WEEK Nov 18-22
see mult choice tab on the left
How to eliminate MC option= https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GFeLT7QuY6Pp_w9lRv2K3F3QrNTocyO/view?usp=sharing
Sample passages with answers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bQVaBAwe8qjKAza8N0S1IlEUTT03JeES/view?usp=sharing
Mult choice section starts at pg20: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HS_pPE1ez-mrDladGIQZrqBZrRAHUQzL/view?usp=sharing = pg 20-36
Mult Choice test taking strategies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YOI5hFB1UyBOMrr0uO_kv2YGRrcChar7/view?usp=sharing
"of particular interest" passage #11-14 SUBMIT ANSWERS HERE:
period 4
period 5
period 6
1987 #52-60 - submit answers here
PERIOD 4
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How to eliminate MC option= https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GFeLT7QuY6Pp_w9lRv2K3F3QrNTocyO/view?usp=sharing
Sample passages with answers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bQVaBAwe8qjKAza8N0S1IlEUTT03JeES/view?usp=sharing
Mult choice section starts at pg20: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HS_pPE1ez-mrDladGIQZrqBZrRAHUQzL/view?usp=sharing = pg 20-36
Mult Choice test taking strategies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YOI5hFB1UyBOMrr0uO_kv2YGRrcChar7/view?usp=sharing
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1987 #52-60 - submit answers here
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AP Lang Article Presentation OPTIONS (Nov 7-13 2019):
1 BBC News - Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29415716 …
2 For some, violent criminality may be written in their genes http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-violent-criminality-genes-20141028-story.html
3 Scientists Debate If It's OK To Make Viruses More Dangerous In The Lab http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/12/16/371198040/scientists-debate-if-its-ok-to-make-viruses-more-dangerous-in-the-lab
4a Coca-Cola is funding obesity research with a biased message, nutrition experts say
4b How juice companies game science to perpetuate the myth that cranberry prevents UTIs
5 Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes
6a Mourning the death of handwriting/cursive
6b As school standards rise, cursive gets left behind
7a Everyone recommends flossing – but there's hardly any proof it wowww.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/02/dental-floss-proof-works-guidelines-dropped?CMP=share_btn_twrks OR
7b Flossing and the art of scientific investigation
8 Don’t ask us for trigger warnings or safe spaces, the University of Chicago tells freshmen
9 Florida Senate considers computer coding as a foreign language for high school students
10 No more student loans? Purdue University proposes selling shares of students’ future income
11 Lumosity Must Pay $2 Million After "Unfounded" Brain Game Claims (consider The Power of Belief (ESPN article on faith in Power Balance bracelets)
12 Computer simulating 13-year-old boy becomes first to pass Turing test
13 Kenya Burns Elephant Ivory Worth $105 Million to Defy Poachers https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/world/africa/kenya-burns-poached-elephant-ivory-uhuru-kenyatta.html?_r=0#ampshare=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/world/africa/kenya-burns-poached-elephant-ivory-uhuru-kenyatta.html
14 Akron, Ohio, Schools to Get Anti-OD Med Narcan, but Not Everybody Agrees http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/akron-ohio-schools-get-anti-od-med-narcan-not-everybody-n782316
15 Spotify Is Accused Of Creating Fake Artists — But What Is A Fake Artist? http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/07/12/536670493/spotify-is-accused-of-creating-fake-artists-but-what-is-a-fake-artist
16 Could subjects soon be a thing of the past in Finland? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39889523
17 Scientists are predicting that c-sections will lead to bigger babies https://qz.com/858447/scientists-are-predicting-that-c-sections-will-lead-to-bigger-babies/
18 Seizure Inducing Tweet leads to a new kind of prosecution https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/seizure-inducing-tweet-leads-to-a-new-kind-of-prosecution-for-a-new-kind-of-crime/2017/03/18/c5915468-0c10-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.8911095e8abd
19 A diabetic boy’s parents ‘didn’t believe in doctors.’ Now they’re guilty of his murder. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/03/a-diabetic-boys-parents-didnt-believe-in-doctors-now-theyre-guilty-of-his-murder/?utm_term=.b04253f0f3d4
20 Maine Adopts Ranked-Choice Voting. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us/maine-ranked-choice-voting.html?smid=tw-share or https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/9/30/13121346/maine-ranked-choice-voting
21 Why does using a period in a text message make you sound insincere or angry? https://theconversation.com/why-does-using-a-period-in-a-text-message-make-you-sound-insincere-or-angry-61792?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton
22a Yale Will Drop John Calhoun’s Name From Building https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/yale-protests-john-calhoun-grace-murray-hopper.html?smid=tw-share OR
22b Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is REMOVED from top children's literature honor over her 'stereotypical attitudes' to blacks and Native Americans
22c If a Shakespeare play is racist or antisemitic, is it OK to change the ending? OR Mississippi school district removes 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from 8th grade reading list
22d In Defense of Difficult Art at the Guggenheim’s Controversial Exhibition
23 Amazon Echo Factors In Murder Investigation http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/28/507230487/as-we-leave-more-digital-tracks-amazon-echo-factors-in-murder-investigation?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2056 OR https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/27/amazon-echo-murder-case-amplifies-the-question-of-what-always-on-really-means/
24 Scientists Needn't Get A Patient's Consent To Study Blood Or DNA http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/18/510442240/scientists-neednt-get-a-patients-consent-to-study-blood-or-dna?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
25 Top Home-School Texts Dismiss Darwin, Evolution – OR Turkish schools to stop teaching evolution, official says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/turkish-schools-to-stop-teaching-evolution-official-says?CMP=fb_gu
26a How to Build a GDP Measure for the Real Economy - The Atlantic
27b Economics focus: A wealth of data | The Economist
27c Murder Rates Don’t Tell Us Everything About Gun Violence
28 The Enigma of Chinese Medicine - NYTimes.com -
29 Traditional Masculinity Can Hurt Boys, Say New A.P.A. Guidelines
30 When Science Gets Demoted: The Case of Vitamins or a similar article HERE
31 The governor of Easter Island asked the British Museum to return a Moai statue: 'You, the British people, have our soul'
32 Texas Students Will Soon Learn Slavery Played A Central Role In The Civil War
33 Say Au Revoir To That Hunk Of Metal In France That Has Defined The Kilogram or https://twitter.com/i/events/1058382410327326721
34 These Cultural Treasures Are Made of Plastic. Now They’re Falling Apart.
35 A portrait created by AI just sold for $432,000. But is it really art?
36 A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past
37 'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'
38 American Cancer Society, in a Shift, Recommends Fewer Mammograms
39 The Selfless Gene
40 New biometric tests invade the NBA: The next battle between players and owners will be waged inside players' bodies OR Biometrics and the Future of Identification — NOVA Next | PBS
41 Mind vs. Machine (the competition to be the most human human)
42 The Brain on Trial (neuroscience and the courts)
43 The Ethics of Autonomous Cars - Patrick Lin - The Atlantic OR All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic
44 The Memory Hacker (on computer chips for brain therapy)
45 The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains OR The Guilt Free Soldier https://www.villagevoice.com/2003/01/21/the-guilt-free-soldier/
46 The Robot Will See You Now (technology and medicine)
47 The Killing Machines (implications of drones)
48 The Coddling of the American Mind http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive
OR The New Activism of Liberal Arts Colleges http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/the-new-activism-of-liberal-arts-colleges
49 Broad Institute Wins Big Battle Over CRISPR Gene-Editing Patent OR Chinese Scientists Are Outraged by Reports of Gene-Edited Babies OR The Gene Hackers
50 Re-engineering the Earth (about geoengineering approaches to climate issues)
perhaps consider Pleistocene Park
51 Kill All the Mosquitoes?! http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/kill-all-mosquitos-180959069/
52 How China killed essential reefs and built military bases on top. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-22/coverup-in-the-south-china-sea
53 Can ‘predictive policing’ prevent crime before it happens? http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/can-predictive-policing-prevent-crime-it-happens
54 Thousands of Men to be Pardoned for Gay Sex, Once a Crime in Britain https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/world/europe/britain-will-posthumously-pardon-thousands-of-gay-and-bisexual-men.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&mtrref=undefined&gwh=BC70E62614B2137BDD066DE3CF8D361C&gwt=pay
55 NFL Doctors’ Conflicts of Interest May Endanger Players https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nfl-doctors-rsquo-conflicts-of-interest-may-endanger-players/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MB_NEWS
56 Torching the Modern Day Library of Alexandria https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/?utm_content=bufferb2887&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
57 When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using AI https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot?hootPostID=d08f9611b46049f1838fdccfdf3504d8 OR https://qz.com/896207/death-technology-will-allow-grieving-people-to-bring-back-their-loved-ones-from-the-dead-digitally/
58 Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It? https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/technology-is-biased-too-how-do-we-fix-it/?ex_cid=538twitter OR Is it dangerous to recreate flawed human morality in machines? http://www.wired.co.uk/article/algorithms-self-driving-virtual-reality-ethics
59 The Angelina Jolie Effect (genetics and cancer detection) OR try this AARP article on Jolie's effects on cancer/BRCA1 research OR https://www.wired.com/2016/09/wont-get-genetic-test-breast-cancer/ OR https://www.vox.com/2016/12/14/13954260/angelina-jolie-breast-cancer-brca-health-research OR American Cancer Society Issues New Mammogram Guidelines
60 College is Dead. Long Live College! (online universities/megacourses) OR The Order of Things (college rankings)
61 The Robot Economy (unemployment due to robotics) OR A World Without Work http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/ …
62 High Powered Treatment (on electro-shock therapy)
63 As Good As Dead (on “brain death”)
64 Google Deep Mind’s ‘alien’ chess computer reveals game’s deeper truths
65 A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn't like dark skin
66 Science is inching closer to bringing species back from extinction — but the rise of necrofauna has risks
67 Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'
68 College Board restores 250 years to AP World History course after outcry over plan to cut 9,000 years
69 Johns Hopkins names building to honor Henrietta Lacks and her ‘immortal’ cells
70 Dakar’s Museum of Black Civilizations is a vital step for a people reclaiming their history OR A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.
71 The ‘super’ banana that fights for truth, justice and healthy levels of vitamin A - The Washington Post
72 The patent system should reward fresh ideas. Instead, it holds them back. Here's how to fix it http://econ.st/1OSPkL7
73a Computers are stupid compared to humans, Google says. That's why scientists want to ban thinking drones: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/07/27/elon-musk-stephen-hawking-fight-to-ban-autonomous-weapons …
73b Meet the machine that could one day replace anesthesiologists http://wapo.st/1JEBRo1
73c The da Vinci surgical robot: A medical breakthrough with risks for patients
AP Lang Article Presentation OPTIONS (Nov 7-13 2019):
1 BBC News - Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29415716 …
2 For some, violent criminality may be written in their genes http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-violent-criminality-genes-20141028-story.html
3 Scientists Debate If It's OK To Make Viruses More Dangerous In The Lab http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/12/16/371198040/scientists-debate-if-its-ok-to-make-viruses-more-dangerous-in-the-lab
4a Coca-Cola is funding obesity research with a biased message, nutrition experts say
4b How juice companies game science to perpetuate the myth that cranberry prevents UTIs
5 Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes
6a Mourning the death of handwriting/cursive
6b As school standards rise, cursive gets left behind
7a Everyone recommends flossing – but there's hardly any proof it wowww.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/02/dental-floss-proof-works-guidelines-dropped?CMP=share_btn_twrks OR
7b Flossing and the art of scientific investigation
8 Don’t ask us for trigger warnings or safe spaces, the University of Chicago tells freshmen
9 Florida Senate considers computer coding as a foreign language for high school students
10 No more student loans? Purdue University proposes selling shares of students’ future income
11 Lumosity Must Pay $2 Million After "Unfounded" Brain Game Claims (consider The Power of Belief (ESPN article on faith in Power Balance bracelets)
12 Computer simulating 13-year-old boy becomes first to pass Turing test
13 Kenya Burns Elephant Ivory Worth $105 Million to Defy Poachers https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/world/africa/kenya-burns-poached-elephant-ivory-uhuru-kenyatta.html?_r=0#ampshare=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/world/africa/kenya-burns-poached-elephant-ivory-uhuru-kenyatta.html
14 Akron, Ohio, Schools to Get Anti-OD Med Narcan, but Not Everybody Agrees http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/akron-ohio-schools-get-anti-od-med-narcan-not-everybody-n782316
15 Spotify Is Accused Of Creating Fake Artists — But What Is A Fake Artist? http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/07/12/536670493/spotify-is-accused-of-creating-fake-artists-but-what-is-a-fake-artist
16 Could subjects soon be a thing of the past in Finland? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39889523
17 Scientists are predicting that c-sections will lead to bigger babies https://qz.com/858447/scientists-are-predicting-that-c-sections-will-lead-to-bigger-babies/
18 Seizure Inducing Tweet leads to a new kind of prosecution https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/seizure-inducing-tweet-leads-to-a-new-kind-of-prosecution-for-a-new-kind-of-crime/2017/03/18/c5915468-0c10-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.8911095e8abd
19 A diabetic boy’s parents ‘didn’t believe in doctors.’ Now they’re guilty of his murder. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/03/a-diabetic-boys-parents-didnt-believe-in-doctors-now-theyre-guilty-of-his-murder/?utm_term=.b04253f0f3d4
20 Maine Adopts Ranked-Choice Voting. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us/maine-ranked-choice-voting.html?smid=tw-share or https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/9/30/13121346/maine-ranked-choice-voting
21 Why does using a period in a text message make you sound insincere or angry? https://theconversation.com/why-does-using-a-period-in-a-text-message-make-you-sound-insincere-or-angry-61792?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton
22a Yale Will Drop John Calhoun’s Name From Building https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/yale-protests-john-calhoun-grace-murray-hopper.html?smid=tw-share OR
22b Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is REMOVED from top children's literature honor over her 'stereotypical attitudes' to blacks and Native Americans
22c If a Shakespeare play is racist or antisemitic, is it OK to change the ending? OR Mississippi school district removes 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from 8th grade reading list
22d In Defense of Difficult Art at the Guggenheim’s Controversial Exhibition
23 Amazon Echo Factors In Murder Investigation http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/28/507230487/as-we-leave-more-digital-tracks-amazon-echo-factors-in-murder-investigation?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2056 OR https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/27/amazon-echo-murder-case-amplifies-the-question-of-what-always-on-really-means/
24 Scientists Needn't Get A Patient's Consent To Study Blood Or DNA http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/18/510442240/scientists-neednt-get-a-patients-consent-to-study-blood-or-dna?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
25 Top Home-School Texts Dismiss Darwin, Evolution – OR Turkish schools to stop teaching evolution, official says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/turkish-schools-to-stop-teaching-evolution-official-says?CMP=fb_gu
26a How to Build a GDP Measure for the Real Economy - The Atlantic
27b Economics focus: A wealth of data | The Economist
27c Murder Rates Don’t Tell Us Everything About Gun Violence
28 The Enigma of Chinese Medicine - NYTimes.com -
29 Traditional Masculinity Can Hurt Boys, Say New A.P.A. Guidelines
30 When Science Gets Demoted: The Case of Vitamins or a similar article HERE
31 The governor of Easter Island asked the British Museum to return a Moai statue: 'You, the British people, have our soul'
32 Texas Students Will Soon Learn Slavery Played A Central Role In The Civil War
33 Say Au Revoir To That Hunk Of Metal In France That Has Defined The Kilogram or https://twitter.com/i/events/1058382410327326721
34 These Cultural Treasures Are Made of Plastic. Now They’re Falling Apart.
35 A portrait created by AI just sold for $432,000. But is it really art?
36 A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past
37 'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'
38 American Cancer Society, in a Shift, Recommends Fewer Mammograms
39 The Selfless Gene
40 New biometric tests invade the NBA: The next battle between players and owners will be waged inside players' bodies OR Biometrics and the Future of Identification — NOVA Next | PBS
41 Mind vs. Machine (the competition to be the most human human)
42 The Brain on Trial (neuroscience and the courts)
43 The Ethics of Autonomous Cars - Patrick Lin - The Atlantic OR All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic
44 The Memory Hacker (on computer chips for brain therapy)
45 The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains OR The Guilt Free Soldier https://www.villagevoice.com/2003/01/21/the-guilt-free-soldier/
46 The Robot Will See You Now (technology and medicine)
47 The Killing Machines (implications of drones)
48 The Coddling of the American Mind http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive
OR The New Activism of Liberal Arts Colleges http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/the-new-activism-of-liberal-arts-colleges
49 Broad Institute Wins Big Battle Over CRISPR Gene-Editing Patent OR Chinese Scientists Are Outraged by Reports of Gene-Edited Babies OR The Gene Hackers
50 Re-engineering the Earth (about geoengineering approaches to climate issues)
perhaps consider Pleistocene Park
51 Kill All the Mosquitoes?! http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/kill-all-mosquitos-180959069/
52 How China killed essential reefs and built military bases on top. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-22/coverup-in-the-south-china-sea
53 Can ‘predictive policing’ prevent crime before it happens? http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/can-predictive-policing-prevent-crime-it-happens
54 Thousands of Men to be Pardoned for Gay Sex, Once a Crime in Britain https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/world/europe/britain-will-posthumously-pardon-thousands-of-gay-and-bisexual-men.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&mtrref=undefined&gwh=BC70E62614B2137BDD066DE3CF8D361C&gwt=pay
55 NFL Doctors’ Conflicts of Interest May Endanger Players https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nfl-doctors-rsquo-conflicts-of-interest-may-endanger-players/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MB_NEWS
56 Torching the Modern Day Library of Alexandria https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/?utm_content=bufferb2887&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
57 When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using AI https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot?hootPostID=d08f9611b46049f1838fdccfdf3504d8 OR https://qz.com/896207/death-technology-will-allow-grieving-people-to-bring-back-their-loved-ones-from-the-dead-digitally/
58 Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It? https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/technology-is-biased-too-how-do-we-fix-it/?ex_cid=538twitter OR Is it dangerous to recreate flawed human morality in machines? http://www.wired.co.uk/article/algorithms-self-driving-virtual-reality-ethics
59 The Angelina Jolie Effect (genetics and cancer detection) OR try this AARP article on Jolie's effects on cancer/BRCA1 research OR https://www.wired.com/2016/09/wont-get-genetic-test-breast-cancer/ OR https://www.vox.com/2016/12/14/13954260/angelina-jolie-breast-cancer-brca-health-research OR American Cancer Society Issues New Mammogram Guidelines
60 College is Dead. Long Live College! (online universities/megacourses) OR The Order of Things (college rankings)
61 The Robot Economy (unemployment due to robotics) OR A World Without Work http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/ …
62 High Powered Treatment (on electro-shock therapy)
63 As Good As Dead (on “brain death”)
64 Google Deep Mind’s ‘alien’ chess computer reveals game’s deeper truths
65 A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn't like dark skin
66 Science is inching closer to bringing species back from extinction — but the rise of necrofauna has risks
67 Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'
68 College Board restores 250 years to AP World History course after outcry over plan to cut 9,000 years
69 Johns Hopkins names building to honor Henrietta Lacks and her ‘immortal’ cells
70 Dakar’s Museum of Black Civilizations is a vital step for a people reclaiming their history OR A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.
71 The ‘super’ banana that fights for truth, justice and healthy levels of vitamin A - The Washington Post
72 The patent system should reward fresh ideas. Instead, it holds them back. Here's how to fix it http://econ.st/1OSPkL7
73a Computers are stupid compared to humans, Google says. That's why scientists want to ban thinking drones: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/07/27/elon-musk-stephen-hawking-fight-to-ban-autonomous-weapons …
73b Meet the machine that could one day replace anesthesiologists http://wapo.st/1JEBRo1
73c The da Vinci surgical robot: A medical breakthrough with risks for patients
Nov 5:
MAKE YOUR OWN AP LANG Q1 - assignment / template doc - DUE 5pm Nov 15 and share it to [email protected] by then
AP Lang Q1 sample folder drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B04AA4i4sOu8WVhhbGZVYWtqczg?usp=sharing
AP 05 - has TV had a positive impact on elections/democracy
A sample of the finished product for an AP Lang Q1
TOK class of 2020 ideas
civil forfeiture
internet privacy invasion
the utility of insider vs outsider art
the modern relevance of indigenous knowledge
whether teacher should be armed = look here cuz the prior link is dead
Write a complex essay about considering whether allowing high school students to have a part-time job is beneficial or damaging to the health and educational growth of teenagers. = are Teen jobs useful = sepanic
take a side and then do: BENEFICIAL prep doc vs DAMAGING prep doc
Which is worse: book burning or flag burning?
Voting age to 16 = Stellone
Zero Tolerance policy in schools = wilhelm
role of vocational education (Swenson);
should college athletes be paid (Whyte)
others:
Should they be paid - both sides of the debate - click in to get to other articles
The Shame of College Sports
Should college athletes be paid - NY Times
NCAA exploits college athletes as slave labor
50 min video PBS Frontline: Money and March Madness
Schooled: the price of college sports (see me for DVD)
Here's a fair way to pay college athletes
Paying college athletes would break the NCAA?
Here's why we shouldn't pay college athletes
Why NCAA athletes shouldn't be paid
attempted unionization of Northwestern athletes
the average Duke basketball player is worth 1.3 mil to the school
How much is Tim Tebow worth to UF
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As colleges become more difficult to get into, and the education gap keeps widening, there has been considerable debate on how much merit plays a role in the college admissions process, the idea that any student who works hard can go to college if they want to. “Instead, events like the indictment of 33 adults charged with bribery and fraud relating to college admissions force us to confront the uncomfortable truth that no amount of hard work can equal the impact that money and class status have on higher education.” (The Daily Cardinal). How much influence should a parent have on their child’s education? Does society have the right to punish parents who are trying to do the best for their children?
Carefully read the following seven sources, including the introductory information for each source. Then synthesize material from at least three of the sources and incorporate it into a coherent, well-written essay in which you develop a position on the impact of merit or parental influence as a key ingredient to college admittance.
Your argument should be the focus of your essay. Use the sources to develop your argument and explain the reasoning for it. Avoid merely summarizing the sources. Indicate clearly which sources you are drawing from, whether through direct quotation, paraphrase, or summary. You may cite the sources as Source A, Source B, etc.
https://www.dailycardinal.com/.../college-admissions...
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-admissions-cheating...
B. http://www.pewresearch.org/.../most-americans-say.../
C. https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2019/03/13
D. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/.../david-mamet-pens...
E. https://www.cnn.com/.../college-admissions.../index.html...
F. https://www.chicagotribune.com/.../ct-life-stevens...
G. https://www.theatlantic.com/.../stop-college.../584749/
H. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../kelley-williams-bolar...
Not used articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-bribery-admissions.html
https://www.newyorker.com/.../jared-kushners-harvard...
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-admission-scandal...
https://www.newyorker.com/.../jared-kushners-harvard...
https://www.huffpost.com/.../college-admissions-scandal...
A Q2 style of a college admissions scandal prompt
Q1 sources list:
https://wakelet.com/wake/4678e73f-b3e2-4aa1-9fdf-747fb37511ab?fbclid=IwAR1kiPiNhjvao3HdBJLRff_BUI_4yev9SJA2cz3uIyY8SYQKw37PVG5YGaY
MAKE YOUR OWN AP LANG Q1 - assignment / template doc - DUE 5pm Nov 15 and share it to [email protected] by then
AP Lang Q1 sample folder drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B04AA4i4sOu8WVhhbGZVYWtqczg?usp=sharing
AP 05 - has TV had a positive impact on elections/democracy
A sample of the finished product for an AP Lang Q1
TOK class of 2020 ideas
civil forfeiture
internet privacy invasion
the utility of insider vs outsider art
the modern relevance of indigenous knowledge
whether teacher should be armed = look here cuz the prior link is dead
Write a complex essay about considering whether allowing high school students to have a part-time job is beneficial or damaging to the health and educational growth of teenagers. = are Teen jobs useful = sepanic
take a side and then do: BENEFICIAL prep doc vs DAMAGING prep doc
Which is worse: book burning or flag burning?
Voting age to 16 = Stellone
Zero Tolerance policy in schools = wilhelm
role of vocational education (Swenson);
should college athletes be paid (Whyte)
others:
Should they be paid - both sides of the debate - click in to get to other articles
The Shame of College Sports
Should college athletes be paid - NY Times
NCAA exploits college athletes as slave labor
50 min video PBS Frontline: Money and March Madness
Schooled: the price of college sports (see me for DVD)
Here's a fair way to pay college athletes
Paying college athletes would break the NCAA?
Here's why we shouldn't pay college athletes
Why NCAA athletes shouldn't be paid
attempted unionization of Northwestern athletes
the average Duke basketball player is worth 1.3 mil to the school
How much is Tim Tebow worth to UF
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stats/graphics 2
stats/graphics 3
graphic 4
graphic 5
As colleges become more difficult to get into, and the education gap keeps widening, there has been considerable debate on how much merit plays a role in the college admissions process, the idea that any student who works hard can go to college if they want to. “Instead, events like the indictment of 33 adults charged with bribery and fraud relating to college admissions force us to confront the uncomfortable truth that no amount of hard work can equal the impact that money and class status have on higher education.” (The Daily Cardinal). How much influence should a parent have on their child’s education? Does society have the right to punish parents who are trying to do the best for their children?
Carefully read the following seven sources, including the introductory information for each source. Then synthesize material from at least three of the sources and incorporate it into a coherent, well-written essay in which you develop a position on the impact of merit or parental influence as a key ingredient to college admittance.
Your argument should be the focus of your essay. Use the sources to develop your argument and explain the reasoning for it. Avoid merely summarizing the sources. Indicate clearly which sources you are drawing from, whether through direct quotation, paraphrase, or summary. You may cite the sources as Source A, Source B, etc.
https://www.dailycardinal.com/.../college-admissions...
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-admissions-cheating...
B. http://www.pewresearch.org/.../most-americans-say.../
C. https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2019/03/13
D. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/.../david-mamet-pens...
E. https://www.cnn.com/.../college-admissions.../index.html...
F. https://www.chicagotribune.com/.../ct-life-stevens...
G. https://www.theatlantic.com/.../stop-college.../584749/
H. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../kelley-williams-bolar...
Not used articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-bribery-admissions.html
https://www.newyorker.com/.../jared-kushners-harvard...
https://www.nytimes.com/.../college-admission-scandal...
https://www.newyorker.com/.../jared-kushners-harvard...
https://www.huffpost.com/.../college-admissions-scandal...
A Q2 style of a college admissions scandal prompt
Q1 sources list:
https://wakelet.com/wake/4678e73f-b3e2-4aa1-9fdf-747fb37511ab?fbclid=IwAR1kiPiNhjvao3HdBJLRff_BUI_4yev9SJA2cz3uIyY8SYQKw37PVG5YGaY
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TECH WEEK Q1 prompt:
Tuesday 10/29 arrticles
Part 1:
45 Why Students Are Still Spending So Much for College Textbooks
57 More States Opting To 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays By Computer
13 The Touch Screen Generation (the future of learning with toddlers and ipads) - pg 21 in pt 6 PDF for Q2 articles
28 How Google Took over the Classroom https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
36 Cheating Upwards (student ethics in digital age)
42 Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say - The Washington Post
Part 2 (2014 alt exam Q1):
56 INSIDE CHINA'S VAST NEW EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL RANKING
2 Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet - NYTimes.com
2b They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. - NYTimes.com)
2c Are colleges invading students' privacy? How administrators track digital footprints http://theatln.tc/1Cd9is7
2d To fight bias, colleges are employing literal speech police http://college.usatoday.com/2017/02/23/bias-response-teams-college-speech-police/
You Can't Hit Unsend (social media behavior has real world consequences; Harvard) - 50 min podcast
23 Harvard withdraws 10 acceptances for ‘offensive’ memes in private group chat https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/05/harvard-withdraws-10-acceptances-for-offensive-memes-in-private-chat/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4169cf62b923
27 A new bill would allow employers to see your genetic information — unless you pay a fine https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/13/14907250/hr1313-bill-genetic-information
19 AI Algorithms to Prevent Suicide Gain Traction OR Happy with a 20% chance of sadness OR How algorithms rule our working lives https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives?CMP=share_btn_tw
99 Flagler schools enter brave new world of computer surveilance
Tuesday 10/29 arrticles
Part 1:
45 Why Students Are Still Spending So Much for College Textbooks
57 More States Opting To 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays By Computer
13 The Touch Screen Generation (the future of learning with toddlers and ipads) - pg 21 in pt 6 PDF for Q2 articles
28 How Google Took over the Classroom https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
36 Cheating Upwards (student ethics in digital age)
42 Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say - The Washington Post
Part 2 (2014 alt exam Q1):
56 INSIDE CHINA'S VAST NEW EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL RANKING
2 Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet - NYTimes.com
2b They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. - NYTimes.com)
2c Are colleges invading students' privacy? How administrators track digital footprints http://theatln.tc/1Cd9is7
2d To fight bias, colleges are employing literal speech police http://college.usatoday.com/2017/02/23/bias-response-teams-college-speech-police/
You Can't Hit Unsend (social media behavior has real world consequences; Harvard) - 50 min podcast
23 Harvard withdraws 10 acceptances for ‘offensive’ memes in private group chat https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/05/harvard-withdraws-10-acceptances-for-offensive-memes-in-private-chat/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4169cf62b923
27 A new bill would allow employers to see your genetic information — unless you pay a fine https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/13/14907250/hr1313-bill-genetic-information
19 AI Algorithms to Prevent Suicide Gain Traction OR Happy with a 20% chance of sadness OR How algorithms rule our working lives https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives?CMP=share_btn_tw
99 Flagler schools enter brave new world of computer surveilance
Oct 21 (16 pts):
1) Read the new 6 pt rubric for Q1 synthesis prompt in PDF below (pg1) or the specific rubric for 2019 Q1 prompt here that has quite useful "scoring notes"
2) Read (quickly) the 2019 AP Lang Q1 on wind power here (pg2-8)
3) Read the student samples on 2019 Q1 here (or at least LL, A, TT which are good and HH and H which are bad)
4) Read the score feedback for those essays here that uses the 6pt rubric (NOTE on the rubric: row A = thesis; row B = evidence and commentary; row C = sophistication)
5) Can do the same process here for the Q1 prompt where it says Questions originally from the 2018 exam (the 2018 exam is here - Q1 was about eminent domain)
4 question ASSIGNMENT = Google form task on 2019 Q1 sample essay readings & rubric
1) Read the new 6 pt rubric for Q1 synthesis prompt in PDF below (pg1) or the specific rubric for 2019 Q1 prompt here that has quite useful "scoring notes"
2) Read (quickly) the 2019 AP Lang Q1 on wind power here (pg2-8)
3) Read the student samples on 2019 Q1 here (or at least LL, A, TT which are good and HH and H which are bad)
4) Read the score feedback for those essays here that uses the 6pt rubric (NOTE on the rubric: row A = thesis; row B = evidence and commentary; row C = sophistication)
5) Can do the same process here for the Q1 prompt where it says Questions originally from the 2018 exam (the 2018 exam is here - Q1 was about eminent domain)
4 question ASSIGNMENT = Google form task on 2019 Q1 sample essay readings & rubric
ap_lang_2020_scoring_rubrics_-_reformatted_4_updated_.pdf | |
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Oct 17: Personality tests - or The strengths/limits of subjective testing
SUBMIT YOUR RESULTS FROM TODAY TO ROHOL
"YOU CAN'T PROVE A NEGATIVE"
SUBMIT YOUR RESULTS FROM TODAY TO ROHOL
"YOU CAN'T PROVE A NEGATIVE"
Persepolis reading day (Oct 15 or 17)
Complete text
Slightly better image quality version of Part 1 only
EXIT TICKET (10 pts) on your reading of Persepolis
other graphic novels to try:
Maus
A Distant Neighborhood
Complete text
Slightly better image quality version of Part 1 only
EXIT TICKET (10 pts) on your reading of Persepolis
other graphic novels to try:
Maus
A Distant Neighborhood
Your ultimate stat day task (ask Rohol) - Oct 11 (a Q2 grade)
OCT 10 - AP's guide to reading images
Analysis of Visual Data / Images / Cartoons:
The Roots - Things Fall Apart #17
Model UN gun
Obama (bad) satire cover
Banksy protest/street art
Ai Weiwei protest art
Trump New Yorker cover
Trump Time covers
Trump wall (right wing)
Trump tariffs
Trump wall pt2
Antifa
Germs Invade
Visual Rhetoric examples
MUST READ: AP's Reading Images site
http://www.politicalcartoons.com/
http://www.thestate.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/robert-ariail/
some New Yorker cartoons
The New Yorker cartoon contest
Definition: An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration containing a commentary that usually relates to current events or personalities.
(1) Drawing, design and layout:
After you identify the symbols in a cartoon, think about what the cartoonist intends each symbol to stand for.
ExaggerationSometimes cartoonists overdo, or exaggerate, the physical characteristics of people or things in order to make a point.
When you study a cartoon, look for any characteristics that seem overdone or overblown. (Facial characteristics and clothing are some of the most commonly exaggerated characteristics.) Then, try to decide what point the cartoonist was trying to make through exaggeration.
LabelingCartoonists often label objects or people to make it clear exactly what they stand for.
Watch out for the different labels that appear in a cartoon, and ask yourself why the cartoonist chose to label that particular person or object. Does the label make the meaning of the object more clear?
AnalogyAn analogy is a comparison between two unlike things that share some characteristics. By comparing a complex issue or situation with a more familiar one, cartoonists can help their readers see it in a different light.
After you’ve studied a cartoon for a while, try to decide what the cartoon’s main analogy is. What two situations does the cartoon compare? Once you understand the main analogy, decide if this comparison makes the cartoonist’s point more clear to you.
IronyIrony is the difference between the ways things are and the way things should be, or the way things are expected to be. Cartoonists often use irony to express their opinion on an issue.
When you look at a cartoon, see if you can find any irony in the situation the cartoon depicts. If you can, think about what point the irony might be intended to emphasize. Does the irony help the cartoonist express his or her opinion more effectively?
Once you’ve identified the persuasive techniques that the cartoonist used, ask yourself:
The Roots - Things Fall Apart #17
Model UN gun
Obama (bad) satire cover
Banksy protest/street art
Ai Weiwei protest art
Trump New Yorker cover
Trump Time covers
Trump wall (right wing)
Trump tariffs
Trump wall pt2
Antifa
Germs Invade
Visual Rhetoric examples
MUST READ: AP's Reading Images site
http://www.politicalcartoons.com/
http://www.thestate.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/robert-ariail/
some New Yorker cartoons
The New Yorker cartoon contest
Definition: An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration containing a commentary that usually relates to current events or personalities.
(1) Drawing, design and layout:
- Things to consider: What facial expressions are needed to convey the message? How can contrast in color or shading enhance the message?
- What number of elements or objects are needed? What is the focal point? Which visuals need to be emphasized? Did the artist avoid clutter?
- Things to consider: Is the story or historical reference widely known? Is there a present day reference? If there are historical people, are they easily identified? If phrases are used from a literary source, is it well known? What background knowledge does the viewer need to understand the references?
- Things to consider: How do the words work with the visual features of the cartoon? How does the title help you understand the cartoon? How many words, if any , are needed to communicate with the viewer? Are the words familiar to the viewers? Which words aren’t necessary? Is the heading necessary?
- Things to consider: How does the cartoon show an ideas or opinion without stating the opinion? (What is used to represent something else? symbol) Is the issue or idea likened to something else? (analogy) Does the cartoon make the viewer “stretch” his/ her imagination? Is this fair?
- Symbols: Are the symbols well known? Do the symbols add to other elements of the cartoon? Does the symbol not only represent something but help the cartoonist make a point?
- Analogy: Is it clear what the analogy represents?
- (Irony is an implied difference between what is said or expected and what is meant or actually occurs.) Things to consider: Do the words or images express a meaning contrary to the overall point of the cartoon? (irony) Does the message make fun of something or someone to suggest change is needed? (satire) Is the humor respectful? What makes the cartoon humorous or ironic? (images, words) Does the humor or irony make the reader more open to the cartoonist’s point of view?
- Things to consider: What is the point of changing the proportion of objects or people in a cartoon? What does the proportion tell you about the relationships between the objects and / or people? How does the exaggeration or understatement grab the viewers attention or force a response? Is the exaggeration or understatement used to encourage debate or force the viewer to think? Does the exaggeration or understatement look too ridiculous or silly?
- Things to consider: What does the caricature of the person emphasize or exaggerate? Is it a fair exaggeration? What does the exaggeration in the caricature (nose, jaw, eyes, ears, etc.) indicate about the cartoonist’s view of the person? Do the exaggerations encourage debate or an emotional response? Is it effective? Stereotypes have to be used carefully. Is the stereotype harmful? Prejudicial? Naïve? Unfairly insulting to an entire group? Does the stereotype reinforce the cartoonist’s opinion or distract from his/her opinion?
- Things to consider: Is there one topic or issue? Does it express one opinion? Does the cartoonist understand the issue or topic? Does the cartoon force the viewer to use his/ her imagination while clearly communicating the cartoonist’ opinion?
After you identify the symbols in a cartoon, think about what the cartoonist intends each symbol to stand for.
ExaggerationSometimes cartoonists overdo, or exaggerate, the physical characteristics of people or things in order to make a point.
When you study a cartoon, look for any characteristics that seem overdone or overblown. (Facial characteristics and clothing are some of the most commonly exaggerated characteristics.) Then, try to decide what point the cartoonist was trying to make through exaggeration.
LabelingCartoonists often label objects or people to make it clear exactly what they stand for.
Watch out for the different labels that appear in a cartoon, and ask yourself why the cartoonist chose to label that particular person or object. Does the label make the meaning of the object more clear?
AnalogyAn analogy is a comparison between two unlike things that share some characteristics. By comparing a complex issue or situation with a more familiar one, cartoonists can help their readers see it in a different light.
After you’ve studied a cartoon for a while, try to decide what the cartoon’s main analogy is. What two situations does the cartoon compare? Once you understand the main analogy, decide if this comparison makes the cartoonist’s point more clear to you.
IronyIrony is the difference between the ways things are and the way things should be, or the way things are expected to be. Cartoonists often use irony to express their opinion on an issue.
When you look at a cartoon, see if you can find any irony in the situation the cartoon depicts. If you can, think about what point the irony might be intended to emphasize. Does the irony help the cartoonist express his or her opinion more effectively?
Once you’ve identified the persuasive techniques that the cartoonist used, ask yourself:
- What issue is this political cartoon about?
- What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
- What other opinion can you imagine another person having on this issue?
- Did you find this cartoon persuasive? Why or why not?
- What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
Oct 10? TASK:
Pick a likely issue/debate/social issue that might be tackled in a Q1 or Q3 question
Your group/row is responsible for finding one cartoon which show OPPOSITION about the issue.
Your row is responsible for finding one cartoon which show AGREEMENT/favor/support about the issue.
Provide 1-2 sentences of analysis on your choices or interpretations of the chosen cartoons.
TIP = Screenshot/snipping tool the cartoon images (search snip in bottom left to get to the app)
Email it to brentrohol@gmail. com WITH ALL GROUP MEMBERS NAMES LISTED ON LINE 1 OF EMAIL
Pick a likely issue/debate/social issue that might be tackled in a Q1 or Q3 question
Your group/row is responsible for finding one cartoon which show OPPOSITION about the issue.
Your row is responsible for finding one cartoon which show AGREEMENT/favor/support about the issue.
Provide 1-2 sentences of analysis on your choices or interpretations of the chosen cartoons.
TIP = Screenshot/snipping tool the cartoon images (search snip in bottom left to get to the app)
Email it to brentrohol@gmail. com WITH ALL GROUP MEMBERS NAMES LISTED ON LINE 1 OF EMAIL
SATIRE EXAMPLES
AP Lang Understanding Satire website
Satirical Movies List
Totino's / Gender ad SNL
President Barbie SNL ad (gender)
Woke Jeans ad - SNL
Key&Peele: TeacherCenter
The Day Beyonce Turned Black SNL
Key and Peele: Magical Negro Fight
Colbert Report - Swift Payment
Colbert Report - Modest Porpoisal
Daily Show - The Snacks of Life
TED Talk parody speech
Onion articles:
"No Way to Prevent This" (guns)
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity with "Intelligent Falling" theory
Fun Toy Banned all because of 3 stupid dead kids
Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequences
CIA Realizes It Has Been Using Black Highlighters all these years
ACLU defends Nazi's right to burn down ACLU headquarters
Budget Mix Up Provides Nation's Schools with enough money to provide quality education
Girl Moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliffs Notes
Jared Kushner's Harvard admission essay
Andy Borowitz from The New Yorker
Babylon Bee - Christian news satire
We're Just Using Greta's Photo to Get Clicks - Waterford Whisperer - Irish satire news site
Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp
CLASSIC SATIRE: Mark Twain's "Advice to Youth"
I want a wife by Judy Brady (& appreciation for it as legendary feminist satire)
REVISIONIST HISTORY PODCAST - THE SATIRE PARADOX
consider this article as a response to the podcast and the 2010Q3 prompt below
Malcolm Gladwell doesn't understand satire
Comedy Central Daily Show - satire on the street - ties to Obama "satire" cover below
AP Lang Understanding Satire website
Satirical Movies List
Totino's / Gender ad SNL
President Barbie SNL ad (gender)
Woke Jeans ad - SNL
Key&Peele: TeacherCenter
The Day Beyonce Turned Black SNL
Key and Peele: Magical Negro Fight
Colbert Report - Swift Payment
Colbert Report - Modest Porpoisal
Daily Show - The Snacks of Life
TED Talk parody speech
Onion articles:
"No Way to Prevent This" (guns)
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity with "Intelligent Falling" theory
Fun Toy Banned all because of 3 stupid dead kids
Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequences
CIA Realizes It Has Been Using Black Highlighters all these years
ACLU defends Nazi's right to burn down ACLU headquarters
Budget Mix Up Provides Nation's Schools with enough money to provide quality education
Girl Moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliffs Notes
Jared Kushner's Harvard admission essay
Andy Borowitz from The New Yorker
Babylon Bee - Christian news satire
We're Just Using Greta's Photo to Get Clicks - Waterford Whisperer - Irish satire news site
Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp
CLASSIC SATIRE: Mark Twain's "Advice to Youth"
I want a wife by Judy Brady (& appreciation for it as legendary feminist satire)
REVISIONIST HISTORY PODCAST - THE SATIRE PARADOX
consider this article as a response to the podcast and the 2010Q3 prompt below
Malcolm Gladwell doesn't understand satire
Comedy Central Daily Show - satire on the street - ties to Obama "satire" cover below
Satire Defined
The use of mockery, irony, humor, and/or wit to attack or ridicule something, such as a person, habit, idea, institution, society, or custom that is, or is considered to be, foolish, flawed, or wrong. The aim of satire is, or should be, to improve human institutions and/or humanity. Satire attempts through humor and laughter to inspire individuals, institutions, and humankind to improve or to encourage its readers to put pressure on individuals and institutions so that they may be improved for the benefit of all.
“The best satire does not seek to do harm or damage by its ridicule, unless we speak of damage to the structure of vice, but rather it seeks to create a shock of recognition and to make vice repulsive so that the vice will be expunged from the person or society under attack or from the person or society intended to benefit by the attack (regardless of who is the immediate object of attack); whenever possible this shock of recognition is to be conveyed through laughter or wit: the formula for satire is one of honey and medicine. Far from being simply destructive, satire is implicitly constructive, and the satirists themselves, whom I trust concerning such matters, often depict themselves as such constructive critics.
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form, although in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
Type of Satire: Horation Satire vs. Juvenalian Satire
Traditionally, satire was classified according to two basic types, named after the Roman satirists Horace and Juvenal. “Horation” satire is light and amusing, whereas “Juvenalian” satire is bitter and shocking. But between these two extremes lies a vast range of attitudes; amusement and contempt may be blended in varying proportions. You might imagine these two qualities as the oil and the vinegar in a salad dressing, differing in proportion according to the chef’s taste.
Horation satire is found in the following passages from Gulliver’s Travels, part 1:
…the rope dancing diversion, in which vacant political offices in Lilliput are filled by whoever jumps the highest without falling off the tightrope. Also, honor in office is awarded to those who show the most agility in leaping and creeping over a stick held by the emperor.
Juvenalian satire is found in the following passage from Gulliver’s Travels, Part 2, the King’s response to Gulliver’s descriptions of government in England:
You have made a most admirable [speech of praise] upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying as a legislator…I cannot but conclude the bulk or your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the earth.
Strategies/Devices/Techniques of Satire (3)
Parody works well as an “umbrella” term because the whole piece is a parody. Introduce it as your first strategy and show how all other strategies contribute to the parody. To analyze parody, identify the satirical target, that is, what is being mocked through imitation.
The use of mockery, irony, humor, and/or wit to attack or ridicule something, such as a person, habit, idea, institution, society, or custom that is, or is considered to be, foolish, flawed, or wrong. The aim of satire is, or should be, to improve human institutions and/or humanity. Satire attempts through humor and laughter to inspire individuals, institutions, and humankind to improve or to encourage its readers to put pressure on individuals and institutions so that they may be improved for the benefit of all.
“The best satire does not seek to do harm or damage by its ridicule, unless we speak of damage to the structure of vice, but rather it seeks to create a shock of recognition and to make vice repulsive so that the vice will be expunged from the person or society under attack or from the person or society intended to benefit by the attack (regardless of who is the immediate object of attack); whenever possible this shock of recognition is to be conveyed through laughter or wit: the formula for satire is one of honey and medicine. Far from being simply destructive, satire is implicitly constructive, and the satirists themselves, whom I trust concerning such matters, often depict themselves as such constructive critics.
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form, although in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
Type of Satire: Horation Satire vs. Juvenalian Satire
Traditionally, satire was classified according to two basic types, named after the Roman satirists Horace and Juvenal. “Horation” satire is light and amusing, whereas “Juvenalian” satire is bitter and shocking. But between these two extremes lies a vast range of attitudes; amusement and contempt may be blended in varying proportions. You might imagine these two qualities as the oil and the vinegar in a salad dressing, differing in proportion according to the chef’s taste.
- HORATION SATIRE is light and playfully amusing, and seeks to correct vice or foolishness with gentle laughter and understanding. (also Horatian)
Horation satire is found in the following passages from Gulliver’s Travels, part 1:
…the rope dancing diversion, in which vacant political offices in Lilliput are filled by whoever jumps the highest without falling off the tightrope. Also, honor in office is awarded to those who show the most agility in leaping and creeping over a stick held by the emperor.
- JUVENALIAN SATIRE provokes a darker kind of laughter. It is often bitter and shocking, and criticizes corruption or incompetence with scorn and outrage.
Juvenalian satire is found in the following passage from Gulliver’s Travels, Part 2, the King’s response to Gulliver’s descriptions of government in England:
You have made a most admirable [speech of praise] upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying as a legislator…I cannot but conclude the bulk or your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the earth.
Strategies/Devices/Techniques of Satire (3)
- Burlesque: work that ridicules people, or actions by mimicry and ridiculous exaggeration achieved through a variety of ways intending to cause laughter. For example, the sublime may be absurd, honest emotions may be turned to sentimentality. STYLE is the essential quality in burlesque. A style ordinarily dignified may be used for nonsensical matters, etc. Characterized by ribald humor and immodestly dressed women; impertinent comedy, the point being to spoof and titillate and not to offend.
- Caricature: An exaggerated parody, "over the top" portrayal of a person's mental, physical, or personality traits in wisecrack form. Can be insulting, complimentary, and political or can be drawn solely for entertainment too.
- Diminution: Reduces the size of something in order that it may be made to appear ridiculous or in order to be examined closely and have its faults seen close up. Also known as deflation. To analyze diminution, identify what has been reduced, as well as why it would be reduced (satirical purpose).
- Double entendre: a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first (more obvious) meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué (with a sexual connotation) or ironic to convey an indelicate meaning.
- Farce—exciting laughter through exaggerated, improbable situations. This usually contains low comedy: quarreling, fighting, coarse wit, horseplay, noisy singing, boisterous conduct, trickery, clownishness, drunkenness, slap-stick. Farce is literature that combines exaggeration with an improbable plot and stereotyped characters to achieve humor. Ex. Three Stooges, Frasier, 3rd Rock
- Grotesque: creating a tension between laughter and horror or revulsion; the essence of al “sick” humor or black humor. Ex. A baby seal walks into a club… OR dead baby jokes
- Hyperbole – exaggeration. To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen.
- Incongruity. To present something that is out of place or are absurd in relation to its surroundings. To analyze incongruity, describe the scene, as well as what is out of place, with an explanation for why it is out of place.
- Inflation: A common technique of satire is to take a real-life situation and exaggerate it to such a degree that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen, and thus satirical. To analyze inflation, identify what is being exaggerated, how you know it is exaggerated, and why it is exaggerated (satirical purpose).
- Invective—harsh, abusive language directed against a person or cause. Invective is a vehicle, a tool of anger. Invective is the bitterest of all satire. An invective is an angry, critical or abusive tirade directed at someone or something.
- Irony
- Cosmic irony: when a deity, or fate, is represented as though deliberately manipulating events so as to lead the protagonist to false hopes, only to frustrate and mock them.
- Dramatic irony: reader knows something important that a character does not know. Dramatic irony is a relationship of contrast between a character's limited understanding of his or her situation in some particular moment of the unfolding action and what the audience, at the same instant, understands the character's situation actually to be.
- Situational irony: what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate. Situational irony results from recognizing the oddness or unfairness of a given situation, be it positive or negative. Even though a person typically cannot justifiably explain this unfairness logically, the coincidental nature of the situation is still very obvious to those evaluating it.
- Socratic irony: named after Socrates. Presenting a willingness to learn, for the sake of exposing an opponents errors. Feigned ignorance for a purpose. Socrates pretended ignorance of a subject in order to draw knowledge out of his students by a question and answer device. Socratic irony is feigning ignorance to achieve some advantage over an opponent.
- Verbal irony: meaning is different, often opposite, from what it says, a contrast between what is stated and what is meant. Often using sarcasm, overstatement, understatement, and/or litotes.
- Juxtaposition: Places things of unequal importance side by side. It brings all the things down to the lowest level of importance on the list.
- Knaves & Fools—in comedy there are no villains and no innocent victims. Instead, there are rogues (knaves) and suckers (fools). The knave exploits someone “asking for it”. When these two interact, comic satire results. When knaves & fools meet, they expose each other.
- Malapropism—a deliberate mispronunciation of a name or term with the intent of poking fun. Ex. “Lorraine, my density has brought me to you.” George McFly, Back to the Future (destiny). To analyze a malapropism, point to the intentionally incorrect word, as well as identify the real word, the word that should have been used and how it mocks its target.
- Mock Encomium: praise which is only apparent and which suggests blame instead
- Mock Epic: using elevated diction and devices from the epic or the heroic to deal with low or trival subjects
- Parody: To imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing. An imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialize an original work or its subject matter (or some other target). Designed to ridicule in nonsensical fashion an original piece of work. Parody is in literature what the caricature and cartoon are in art. Parody is used for mocking or mocking its idea of the person, place, or thing.
Parody works well as an “umbrella” term because the whole piece is a parody. Introduce it as your first strategy and show how all other strategies contribute to the parody. To analyze parody, identify the satirical target, that is, what is being mocked through imitation.
- Reversal. To present the opposite of the normal order (e.g., the order of events, hierarchical order). To analyze reversal, identify what the normal order is and then where and why that order has been violated.
- Sarcasm: use of language to hurt or ridicule; not subtle; a sharply mocking or contemptuous remark. To analyze sarcasm, identify the verbal irony (meaning opposite of what is stated), as well as evidence of “attitude,” the words (diction) that indicates the snarky tone, which is the defining feature of sarcasm.
- Syllepsis: one word modifies or governs two or more words with different senses. Ex. "He was deep in thought and debt."
- Travesty—presents a serious (often religious) subject frivolously it reduces everything to its lowest level; a mockingly undignified or trivializing treatment of a dignified subject, usually as a kind of parody. Travesty may be distinguished from the mock epic and other kinds of burlesque in that it treats a solemn subject frivolously, while they treat frivolous subjects with mock solemnity.
- Understatement – Reference to something as exaggeratedly lesser than its true nature; for example, describing a flooded area as "slightly soggy" (Litotes: deliberate understatement)
- Wit: humor in order to criticize, verbal cleverness
- Word Play: the words that are used become the main subject of the work: puns, phonetic mix-ups, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, telling character names, etc.
Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" essay - use with SOAPSTONE handout
Tues readings (after underclassmen photos): ORWELL ESSAYS:
George OrwellPolitics and the English Language
George Orwell Why I Write
Bookshop Memories
My Country Left or Right
Some Thoughts on a Common Toad
The Sporting Spirit
How the Poor Die
The Spike
Marrakech
Tues readings (after underclassmen photos): ORWELL ESSAYS:
George OrwellPolitics and the English Language
George Orwell Why I Write
Bookshop Memories
My Country Left or Right
Some Thoughts on a Common Toad
The Sporting Spirit
How the Poor Die
The Spike
Marrakech
Just an FYI: Four Levels of Meaning: 1) the literal or historical, that which actually occurs 2) the moral meaning 3) the allegorical meaning, the symbolic significance which pertains to mankind 4) the anagogical: the spiritual or mystical meaning stating an eternal truth
FYI: These terms somewhat overlap: schemes, tropes, tactics, argumentative strategies, rhetorical method
What is the difference between loose (non periodic) sentences, periodic sentences, balanced sentences, telegraphic sentences and/or the use of parallelism.
FYI: These terms somewhat overlap: schemes, tropes, tactics, argumentative strategies, rhetorical method
What is the difference between loose (non periodic) sentences, periodic sentences, balanced sentences, telegraphic sentences and/or the use of parallelism.
Q2 Rhetorical Analysis - Tues Sept 17
Tone Classification Test 2020
Style and Tone
Tone Descriptors
Tone and Attitude
SAMPLE: The Odyssey, Homer
"I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland,
To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men,
Who will cut off your nostrils and ears with a sharp bronze sword;
He will tear off your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw."
SAMPLE ANSWER: THREATENING--In this excerpt, one of Homer's characters
makes dire threats against another. The key to classifying a tone as
"threatening" is the possibility or promise of negative action against the
subject. Our particular subject has achieved quite a severe set of
consequences for himself and thus more than merits the designation.
Through the Looking-Glass, Carrol
They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she
was just going round to see if "TWEEDLE" was written at the back of each
collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked "DUM."
"If you think we're wax-works," he said, "you ought to pay, you
know. Wax-works weren't made to be looked at for nothing."
A) pedantic B) whimsical
C) threatening D) sympathetic
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Kesey
She tells them right back in a loud, brassy voice that he's already plenty
damn clean, thank you.
"They showered me this morning at the courthouse and last night at
the jail. And I swear I believe they'd of washed my ears for me on the taxi
over if they coulda found the facilities. Hoo boy, seems like every time
they ship me someplace I gotta get scrubbed down before, after, and during
the operation--and get back away from me with that thermometer, Sam."
Tone Descriptor:
A) disappointed B) condescending
C) amused D) audacious
Multiple Choice#1 - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
"Afterwards we will be as one animal of the forest and be so close
that neither one can tell that one of us is one and not the other. Can you
not feel my heart be your heart?"
A) somber B) urgent
C) factual D) intimate
#2 - Kink, Davies
But I felt after the novelty had worn off the Americans didn't
really understand our music or our culture. Coming from a country where
having central heating was considered posh and a refrigerator a luxury,
Americans seemed to me to be strangely spoiled and 'old-fashioned.' They
seemed to be lost in the forties and fifties. I expected to find Americans
more forward and progressive but I was surprised to find many very set in
their ways, just like their English counterparts.
A) urgent B) disappointed
C) sardonic D) detached
#3 - "God is love," Bowring
God is love; his mercy brightens
All the path in which we rove;
Bliss he wakes and woe he lightens;
God is wisdom, God is love.
A) pedantic B) simpering
C) reverent D) detached
#4 -The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
"There were always children there, and I spent all my time with the
children, only with the children. They were the children of the village
where I lived, a whole gang of them, who went to the local school. I was
simply with them mostly, and I spent all my four years like that. I did not
want anything else."
A) amused B) reflective
C) reverent D) remorseful
#5 - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
Time passed.
Susan waited.
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the
phone. She looked at her watch. She felt that now was about the time that
she could legitimately begin to feel cross. She was cross already, of
course, but that had been in her own time, so to speak. They were well and
truly into his time now, and even allowing for traffic, mishaps, and
general vagueness and dilatoriness, it was now well over half an hour past
the time that he had insisted was the latest time they could possibly
afford to leave, so she'd better be ready.
A) apprehensive B) elegiac
C) disdainful D) threatening
#6 - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
"I am not made," I cried energetically, "the sun and the heavens,
who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the
assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. A
thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved
their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the
whole human race."
A) ominous B) sardonic
C) elegiac D) remorseful
#7 - Dave Barry's Greatest Hits, Barry
You never found out why these men spend so much time shaking hands
[in beer commercials]. Maybe shaking hands is just their simple
straightforward burly masculine American patriotic way of saying to each
other: "Floyd, I am truly sorry I drank all that beer last night and went
to the bathroom in your glove compartment."
Tone Descriptor:
A) bantering B) sympathetic
C) intimate D) disdainful
#8 - The Way Things Work, David Macaulay
The kind of nuclear reaction that happens inside a nuclear reactor
is called nuclear fission. The fuel is uranium or plutonium, two very heavy
elements which have many protons and neutrons in their nuclei. Fission
starts when a fast-moving neutron strikes a nucleus. The nucleus cannot
take in the extra neutron, and the whole nucleus breaks apart into two
smaller nuclei.
Tone Descriptor:
A) provocative
C) detached D) pedantic
#9 - Cannery Row, Steinbeck
Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Henri
had so steeped himself in stories of the Left Bank in Paris that he lived
there although he had never been there. Feverishly he followed in
periodicals the Dadaist movements and schisms, the strangely feminine
jealousies and religiousness, the obscurantisms of the forming and breaking
schools. Regularly he revolted against outworn techniques and materials.
One season he threw out perspective. Another year he abandoned red, even
as the mother of purple. Finally he gave up paint entirely. It was not
known whether Henri was a good painter or not for he threw himself so
violently into movements that he had little time left for painting of any
kind.
Tone Descriptor:
A) reverent B) apprehensive
C) regretful D) amused
#10 - "Send in the Clowns," Sonheim
Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again with my usual flair,
Sure of my lines, No one is there.
Don't you love farce? My fault, I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.
A) ominous B) satiric
C) intimate D) regretful
#11- "Freedom," Ruskin
You will send your child, will you, into a room where the table is
loaded with sweet wine and fruit-some poisoned, some not?-you will say to
him, "Choose freely, my little child! It is so good for you to have freedom
of choice; it forms your character -your individuality! If you take the
wrong cup or the wrong berry, you will die before the day is over, but you
will have acquired the dignity of a Free child."
A) whimsical B) simpering
C) bantering D) sarcastic
#12 - Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
So all of a sudden, I sort of leaned over and said, "Would any of
you girls care to dance?" I didn't ask them crudely or anything. Very
suave, in fact. But God damn it, they thought that was a panic, too. They
started giggling some more. I'm not kidding, they were three real morons.
A) condescending B) persuasive
C) amused D) audacious
Tone Classification Test 2020
Style and Tone
Tone Descriptors
Tone and Attitude
SAMPLE: The Odyssey, Homer
"I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland,
To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men,
Who will cut off your nostrils and ears with a sharp bronze sword;
He will tear off your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw."
SAMPLE ANSWER: THREATENING--In this excerpt, one of Homer's characters
makes dire threats against another. The key to classifying a tone as
"threatening" is the possibility or promise of negative action against the
subject. Our particular subject has achieved quite a severe set of
consequences for himself and thus more than merits the designation.
Through the Looking-Glass, Carrol
They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she
was just going round to see if "TWEEDLE" was written at the back of each
collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked "DUM."
"If you think we're wax-works," he said, "you ought to pay, you
know. Wax-works weren't made to be looked at for nothing."
A) pedantic B) whimsical
C) threatening D) sympathetic
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Kesey
She tells them right back in a loud, brassy voice that he's already plenty
damn clean, thank you.
"They showered me this morning at the courthouse and last night at
the jail. And I swear I believe they'd of washed my ears for me on the taxi
over if they coulda found the facilities. Hoo boy, seems like every time
they ship me someplace I gotta get scrubbed down before, after, and during
the operation--and get back away from me with that thermometer, Sam."
Tone Descriptor:
A) disappointed B) condescending
C) amused D) audacious
Multiple Choice#1 - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
"Afterwards we will be as one animal of the forest and be so close
that neither one can tell that one of us is one and not the other. Can you
not feel my heart be your heart?"
A) somber B) urgent
C) factual D) intimate
#2 - Kink, Davies
But I felt after the novelty had worn off the Americans didn't
really understand our music or our culture. Coming from a country where
having central heating was considered posh and a refrigerator a luxury,
Americans seemed to me to be strangely spoiled and 'old-fashioned.' They
seemed to be lost in the forties and fifties. I expected to find Americans
more forward and progressive but I was surprised to find many very set in
their ways, just like their English counterparts.
A) urgent B) disappointed
C) sardonic D) detached
#3 - "God is love," Bowring
God is love; his mercy brightens
All the path in which we rove;
Bliss he wakes and woe he lightens;
God is wisdom, God is love.
A) pedantic B) simpering
C) reverent D) detached
#4 -The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
"There were always children there, and I spent all my time with the
children, only with the children. They were the children of the village
where I lived, a whole gang of them, who went to the local school. I was
simply with them mostly, and I spent all my four years like that. I did not
want anything else."
A) amused B) reflective
C) reverent D) remorseful
#5 - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
Time passed.
Susan waited.
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the
phone. She looked at her watch. She felt that now was about the time that
she could legitimately begin to feel cross. She was cross already, of
course, but that had been in her own time, so to speak. They were well and
truly into his time now, and even allowing for traffic, mishaps, and
general vagueness and dilatoriness, it was now well over half an hour past
the time that he had insisted was the latest time they could possibly
afford to leave, so she'd better be ready.
A) apprehensive B) elegiac
C) disdainful D) threatening
#6 - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
"I am not made," I cried energetically, "the sun and the heavens,
who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the
assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. A
thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved
their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the
whole human race."
A) ominous B) sardonic
C) elegiac D) remorseful
#7 - Dave Barry's Greatest Hits, Barry
You never found out why these men spend so much time shaking hands
[in beer commercials]. Maybe shaking hands is just their simple
straightforward burly masculine American patriotic way of saying to each
other: "Floyd, I am truly sorry I drank all that beer last night and went
to the bathroom in your glove compartment."
Tone Descriptor:
A) bantering B) sympathetic
C) intimate D) disdainful
#8 - The Way Things Work, David Macaulay
The kind of nuclear reaction that happens inside a nuclear reactor
is called nuclear fission. The fuel is uranium or plutonium, two very heavy
elements which have many protons and neutrons in their nuclei. Fission
starts when a fast-moving neutron strikes a nucleus. The nucleus cannot
take in the extra neutron, and the whole nucleus breaks apart into two
smaller nuclei.
Tone Descriptor:
A) provocative
C) detached D) pedantic
#9 - Cannery Row, Steinbeck
Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Henri
had so steeped himself in stories of the Left Bank in Paris that he lived
there although he had never been there. Feverishly he followed in
periodicals the Dadaist movements and schisms, the strangely feminine
jealousies and religiousness, the obscurantisms of the forming and breaking
schools. Regularly he revolted against outworn techniques and materials.
One season he threw out perspective. Another year he abandoned red, even
as the mother of purple. Finally he gave up paint entirely. It was not
known whether Henri was a good painter or not for he threw himself so
violently into movements that he had little time left for painting of any
kind.
Tone Descriptor:
A) reverent B) apprehensive
C) regretful D) amused
#10 - "Send in the Clowns," Sonheim
Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again with my usual flair,
Sure of my lines, No one is there.
Don't you love farce? My fault, I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.
A) ominous B) satiric
C) intimate D) regretful
#11- "Freedom," Ruskin
You will send your child, will you, into a room where the table is
loaded with sweet wine and fruit-some poisoned, some not?-you will say to
him, "Choose freely, my little child! It is so good for you to have freedom
of choice; it forms your character -your individuality! If you take the
wrong cup or the wrong berry, you will die before the day is over, but you
will have acquired the dignity of a Free child."
A) whimsical B) simpering
C) bantering D) sarcastic
#12 - Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
So all of a sudden, I sort of leaned over and said, "Would any of
you girls care to dance?" I didn't ask them crudely or anything. Very
suave, in fact. But God damn it, they thought that was a panic, too. They
started giggling some more. I'm not kidding, they were three real morons.
A) condescending B) persuasive
C) amused D) audacious
Thurs Sept 12
Why dangerous symbols can't last forever 5 min video
Damn Interesting » This Place is Not a Place of Honor
1) 2016 AP Lang Q1 prompt on monolingualism!!!!!!!!! (pg2-8)
What suffers with the rise of monolingualism article
Being multilingual alters your experience of time
TED video - could language affect your ability to save money?
2) Untranslatable words (that show you the limits of your native language)
article 1
article 2
article 3
article 4
3) Dying/Extinct Languages: Why We Must Save Dying Languages
4) 4 Things That Happen When a Language Dies
the disappearing dialect of North Carolina (video)
the whistled language of Turkey
2 Cherokee brothers work to save their language
Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now He's the Only One
Icelandic language battles threat of digital extinction OR At risk of digital extinction: Europe's smaller languages fight to survive | Education | theguardian.com
Why some French-speaking non-binary people don't seek treatment in their language
podcast - New Life for Dying Languages (Lexicon Valley)
5) How Do Languages Shape the Way We Think article or the TED video by the author
6) New Rules of Language Evolve with the rise of emojis
Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year 2009-2018
Meme’ - coined thirty-nine years ago, now worlds away from its original meaning: http://bit.ly/1DAipZo
7) Words Don't Mean What They Mean article OR the RSA video on Language as a Window into Human Nature (on indirect speech acts)
8) George OrwellPolitics and the English Language
9) The Racist Politics of the English Language article
10) George Orwell Why I Write
CodeSwitch Podcast on the rebirth of a Hawaiian language
Radiolab Podcast - Words
Radiolab Podcast - Translation
Samantha Bee's comedy show treatment on Trump and how words have no meaning now
Free Speech in USA article
A rare universal pattern in human languages
Mount McKinley vs Denali article
AP 1992 "Cripple" passage - sample essays
Baby Name evolutions 1960 to now in USA
Freakonomics article on Baby Names
Freakonomics podcast - How Much Does your Name Mean
Freakonomics podcast - Hello Marijuana Pepsi
TOK class' Language as a Way of Knowing folder (read 01 PDF)
Shakespeare in emojis
why/how languages die
wukchumni
Why dangerous symbols can't last forever 5 min video
Damn Interesting » This Place is Not a Place of Honor
1) 2016 AP Lang Q1 prompt on monolingualism!!!!!!!!! (pg2-8)
What suffers with the rise of monolingualism article
Being multilingual alters your experience of time
TED video - could language affect your ability to save money?
2) Untranslatable words (that show you the limits of your native language)
article 1
article 2
article 3
article 4
3) Dying/Extinct Languages: Why We Must Save Dying Languages
4) 4 Things That Happen When a Language Dies
the disappearing dialect of North Carolina (video)
the whistled language of Turkey
2 Cherokee brothers work to save their language
Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now He's the Only One
Icelandic language battles threat of digital extinction OR At risk of digital extinction: Europe's smaller languages fight to survive | Education | theguardian.com
Why some French-speaking non-binary people don't seek treatment in their language
podcast - New Life for Dying Languages (Lexicon Valley)
5) How Do Languages Shape the Way We Think article or the TED video by the author
6) New Rules of Language Evolve with the rise of emojis
Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year 2009-2018
Meme’ - coined thirty-nine years ago, now worlds away from its original meaning: http://bit.ly/1DAipZo
7) Words Don't Mean What They Mean article OR the RSA video on Language as a Window into Human Nature (on indirect speech acts)
8) George OrwellPolitics and the English Language
9) The Racist Politics of the English Language article
10) George Orwell Why I Write
CodeSwitch Podcast on the rebirth of a Hawaiian language
Radiolab Podcast - Words
Radiolab Podcast - Translation
Samantha Bee's comedy show treatment on Trump and how words have no meaning now
Free Speech in USA article
A rare universal pattern in human languages
Mount McKinley vs Denali article
AP 1992 "Cripple" passage - sample essays
Baby Name evolutions 1960 to now in USA
Freakonomics article on Baby Names
Freakonomics podcast - How Much Does your Name Mean
Freakonomics podcast - Hello Marijuana Pepsi
TOK class' Language as a Way of Knowing folder (read 01 PDF)
Shakespeare in emojis
why/how languages die
wukchumni
Language - TOK Questions
This beautiful language tree shows how India is as linguistically diverse as Europe http://wapo.st/1tjvtz0
BBC News - Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire OR Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money? | Talk Video | TED.com OR 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think | TED Blog
How languages evolve - Alex Gendler http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-languages-evolve-alex-gendler …
Native American struggle to retain near extinct languages: Independent Lens: We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean or a related article Preserving Biocultural Diversity
OR
how-to-save-an-endangered-language ORSilesian, the 103rd language on TED.com, and the story behind it | TED Blog OR
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies | Talk Video | TED.com
How to Edit a Dictionary - Jen Doll - The Atlantic OR Punctuated Equilibrium - Joe Pinsker - The Atlantic
Draining the Language Out of Color
When patients suffer a loss of language, must they also lose their sense of self?
Anne Curzan: What makes a word "real"?
Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography
Bobby Ghosh: the evolution of the word jihad
John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity - a somewhat unusual theory
Excellent: Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language …
Body Language: ethnicity, stereotypes and the complexity of communication http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/communication/body-language …
How Dogs Understand What We Say http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/28/367092004/how-dogs-understand-what-we-say
From Salt To Salary: Linguists Take A Page From Science http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2014/11/08/362478685/from-salt-to-salary-linguists-take-a-page-from-science
This beautiful language tree shows how India is as linguistically diverse as Europe http://wapo.st/1tjvtz0
BBC News - Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire OR Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money? | Talk Video | TED.com OR 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think | TED Blog
How languages evolve - Alex Gendler http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-languages-evolve-alex-gendler …
Native American struggle to retain near extinct languages: Independent Lens: We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean or a related article Preserving Biocultural Diversity
OR
how-to-save-an-endangered-language ORSilesian, the 103rd language on TED.com, and the story behind it | TED Blog OR
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies | Talk Video | TED.com
How to Edit a Dictionary - Jen Doll - The Atlantic OR Punctuated Equilibrium - Joe Pinsker - The Atlantic
Draining the Language Out of Color
When patients suffer a loss of language, must they also lose their sense of self?
Anne Curzan: What makes a word "real"?
Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography
Bobby Ghosh: the evolution of the word jihad
John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity - a somewhat unusual theory
Excellent: Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language …
Body Language: ethnicity, stereotypes and the complexity of communication http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/communication/body-language …
How Dogs Understand What We Say http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/28/367092004/how-dogs-understand-what-we-say
From Salt To Salary: Linguists Take A Page From Science http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2014/11/08/362478685/from-salt-to-salary-linguists-take-a-page-from-science
AP Lang Essays/Speeches Reading List with links - see the Language itself section lines 104-121 OR see below
Hellen KellerThe Key of Language / The Most Important Day of My Lifeharper & row 178 (can use a longer version)https://www.breathitt.kyschools.us/userfiles/46/Classes/33299/The%20Most%20Important%20Day%20Keller.pdf
LakoffMetaphors we Live By (pg 8-18)harper & row 237http://shu.bg/tadmin/upload/storage/161.pdf
George OrwellPolitics and the English Languagedolphin reader 735https://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/Politics_and_the_English_Language-1.pdf
Cyra McFaddenIn Defense of Genderreadings for writers 577https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/magazine/on-language-in-defense-of-gender.html
Eudora WeltyOne Writer's Beginningsnorton reader 573http://writing.laccdssi.org/files/2014/10/Welty.pdf
George Orwell Why I Write
EB WhiteWhy I Writelexington reader pg23https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/whitmanhs/academics/english/Why%20I%20Write%20Orwell.pdf
Vladimir NabokovGood Readers and Good WritersNorton Reader 579http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/goodre.html
EB WhiteThe Essayist and the Essay (sorta included in URL)The Essay Connection pg30https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/04/18/e-b-white-on-egoism-and-the-art-of-the-essay/
comicDavid SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Daycommon threads 160http://theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/09/Me-Talk-Pretty-One-Day-by-David-Sedaris.pdf
comicKirk JohnsonToday's Kids are, like, killing the English languagecommon threads 167https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/09/weekinreview/correspondence-duh-today-s-kids-are-like-killing-the-english-language-yeah-right.html
Leslie Marmon SilkoLanguage and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective50 essay pg346http://www.leeannhunter.com/gender/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SilkoLanguageLiterature.pdf
Frederick DouglassLearning to Read and Writehttp://learningabe.info/fd_ReadandWrite.pdf
Deborah TannenWhy is it so hard for men and women to talk to each otherportals 151http://swc2.hccs.edu/kindle/Sexlies.pdf
Deborah TannenThere is No Unmarked Woman50 essays 409http://academics.otc.edu/media/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/There-is-No-Unmarked-Women.pdf
Joan DidionOn Keeping a Notebookhttps://accessinghigherground.org/handouts2013/HTCTU%20Alt%20Format%20Manuals/Processing%20PDF%20Sample%20Files/00%20On%20Keeping%20a%20Notebook.pdf
Woody AllenSlang Originshttps://sotira.livejournal.com/1316.html
Hellen KellerThe Key of Language / The Most Important Day of My Lifeharper & row 178 (can use a longer version)https://www.breathitt.kyschools.us/userfiles/46/Classes/33299/The%20Most%20Important%20Day%20Keller.pdf
LakoffMetaphors we Live By (pg 8-18)harper & row 237http://shu.bg/tadmin/upload/storage/161.pdf
George OrwellPolitics and the English Languagedolphin reader 735https://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/Politics_and_the_English_Language-1.pdf
Cyra McFaddenIn Defense of Genderreadings for writers 577https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/magazine/on-language-in-defense-of-gender.html
Eudora WeltyOne Writer's Beginningsnorton reader 573http://writing.laccdssi.org/files/2014/10/Welty.pdf
George Orwell Why I Write
EB WhiteWhy I Writelexington reader pg23https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/whitmanhs/academics/english/Why%20I%20Write%20Orwell.pdf
Vladimir NabokovGood Readers and Good WritersNorton Reader 579http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/goodre.html
EB WhiteThe Essayist and the Essay (sorta included in URL)The Essay Connection pg30https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/04/18/e-b-white-on-egoism-and-the-art-of-the-essay/
comicDavid SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Daycommon threads 160http://theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/09/Me-Talk-Pretty-One-Day-by-David-Sedaris.pdf
comicKirk JohnsonToday's Kids are, like, killing the English languagecommon threads 167https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/09/weekinreview/correspondence-duh-today-s-kids-are-like-killing-the-english-language-yeah-right.html
Leslie Marmon SilkoLanguage and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective50 essay pg346http://www.leeannhunter.com/gender/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SilkoLanguageLiterature.pdf
Frederick DouglassLearning to Read and Writehttp://learningabe.info/fd_ReadandWrite.pdf
Deborah TannenWhy is it so hard for men and women to talk to each otherportals 151http://swc2.hccs.edu/kindle/Sexlies.pdf
Deborah TannenThere is No Unmarked Woman50 essays 409http://academics.otc.edu/media/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/There-is-No-Unmarked-Women.pdf
Joan DidionOn Keeping a Notebookhttps://accessinghigherground.org/handouts2013/HTCTU%20Alt%20Format%20Manuals/Processing%20PDF%20Sample%20Files/00%20On%20Keeping%20a%20Notebook.pdf
Woody AllenSlang Originshttps://sotira.livejournal.com/1316.html
Fri Sept 6: Extra Credit tied to the worksheet
PICK ONE [probably don’t watch them in order…try to watch them all before Tuesday]:
TECHNOLOGY/how we access info/store knowledge, etc video that relates to the material from the last week of class:
16 60 Minutes - The Data Brokers – if you were interested in PBS Generation Like video about the TOK issue of data mining social media users
17 PBS Generation LIKE (might show later in class) 50 minutes: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/
18 PBS NOVA: The Smartest Machine on Earth (IBM’s Watson; 50 minutes):
19 ALSO: a history lesson in the building of the Wikipedia knowledge community (from 2005): The birth of Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales on TED.com | TED Blog
20 - 60 minutes - Power of Google 2018
21 TED - We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
22 TED - Beware online filter bubbles
23 60 minutes - Faceprints and personal privacy
24 TED - why our screens make up less happy
25 PBS Frontline - DIgital Nation from 2010
26 60 minutes - are robots hurting job growth 2013
27 TED Maurice Conti - incredible inventions of intuitive AI
OTHER TED VIDEOS:
1. HUMAN SCI/REASON/HOW WE PRIORITIZE AND DO DECISION-MAKING (quite interesting; can stop video at min 24): Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions [ there is a Dan Gilbert 2004 video too if you like this one]
2. Algorithms/Race/Predictive Knowledge/Sociology: https://www.ted.com/talks/cathy_o_neil_the_era_of_blind_faith_in_big_data_must_end
3. How we subjectively place value on things (he did the books: Decartes Baby; Just Babies; How Pleasure Works): Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure | Video on TED.com
2b = Then try (he’s funny): Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man | Video on TED.com and Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff | Video on TED.com
4. BRAIN SCIENCE/BRAIN DEVELOPMENT/ETHICS/PSYCHOLOGY [COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE or if you liked the baby brain lab]: Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds | Video on TED.com
(slightly related: Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? | Video on TED.com)
5. BRAIN SCIENCE/Subjective Experience of unique sense perception moment (we have shown this in class and people loved or hated it but certainly remembered it; her book is pretty good too): Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight | Video on TED.com
6. BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS (if you liked the PBS Mind over Money video or the Sway or Nudge or Predictably Irrational books)/IRRATIONALITY/ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY: Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours | Video on TED.com
5b = Then watch = Tali Sharot: The optimism bias – which deals with another behavioral economics trap/self-delusion (PROMPT6)
7. The power of all human mind’s in the capacity of MEMORY; the nature of ACQUISTION OF KNOWLEDGE: http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do.html
8. FOR FUTURE MED STUDENTS: BAYESIAN RATIONALITY VS. USING OTHER METHODS IN THE PROCESS OF DIAGNOSIS: Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch | Video on TED.com
(if you like then try Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery | Video on TED.com if you wish)
(or consider https://www.ted.com/talks/atul_gawande_want_to_get_great_at_something_get_a_coach )
9. SENSE PERCEPTION/VISUAL TRICKS/TESTING CLAIMS: Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see | Video on TED.com
10. MUSIC/INTELLIGENCE INVOLVED IN REAL-TIME COORDINATION/RAP/fMRI analysis of creativity: Charles Limb: Your brain on improv | Video on TED.com 2010
10b = Then try his Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle | Video on TED.com 2011 (deals with cochlear implants and how ex-deaf perceive music) (can watch Benjamin Zander: Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music | Video on TED.com too or Jose Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution | Video on TED.comor Julian Treasure TED videos)
11. ARTS/PHOTO/EMOTION/ETHICS: David Griffin on how photography connects us | Video on TED.com
(maybe for art/photo as history/historian:) Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world | Video on TED.com
(maybe too: https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_peschak_dive_into_an_ocean_photographer_s_world )
12. Quirky/RACE & CULTURE STUDIES/HISTORY/GLOBALIZATION/FOOD SUPPLY: Jennifer 8. Lee hunts for General Tso | Video on TED.com
13. Weak vs Strong forms of evidence/Bias/Rigging your data/Testing claims in Natural Sciences: Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science | Video on TED.com
13b(maybe then = Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance | Talk Video | TED.com – good on scientific process/approach; an analysis of scientific method in the real world or how we organize the things we don’t know
OR 13c : http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_dare_to_disagree.html
13d: Or Misinterp or reinterp/revisions of neuroscience - Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk | Video on TED.com
14. [for High-minded abstract philosophical students PT1] Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist? | Talk Video | TED.com - semi-comic but very TOK
OR 14b: The history and nature of knowledge/ empiricism / testing knowledge claims (probably the most purely TOK thing on this page): David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | Video on TED.com or an overview of last 100 years of cognitive history James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | Video on TED.com
15. [for High-minded abstract philosophical students PT2 – a bit too academic a college lecture style] Consciousness and the nature of our humanity & BRAIN SCIENCE VISUALIZATIONS TOO: http://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness.html (Daniel Dennett has some TED videos on the issue of consciousness too)
15b ALSO consider https://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness?language=en OR https://www.ted.com/talks/john_searle_our_shared_condition_consciousness
16. Wade Davis 2008 SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY/GLOBAL STUDIES and divergant perspectives/ART/ETHICS/RELIGION: Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual | Video on TED.com (or other speech BUT WE SHOULD WATCH THIS ONE IN CLASS SO…: Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures | Video on TED.com2003)
16B Mark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t | Talk Video | TED.com – for those who might write on indigenous knowledge/people
17. The PARADIGMS we live by and its consequences/LOGOS vs MYTHOS cultures/ETHICS/RELIGION vs SCIENCE: Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify | Video on TED.com
18. Noreena Hertz: How to use experts -- and when not to | Video on TED.com
19. Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend | Talk Video | TED.com – IN 2015, Mrs Murray and Mrs Chance were saying that watching this video might actually save your life
20. Sal Khan of the Khan Academy – the future of how to teach: https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_not_test_scores
21. IF YOU NEED A HISTORIAN: https://www.ted.com/talks/doris_kearns_goodwin_on_learning_from_past_presidents
22. Should you be able to patent a human gene (patent law and ethics/enviro/human life in the Myriad Genetics case)
23. Morality and Driveless Cars: https://www.ted.com/talks/iyad_rahwan_what_moral_decisions_should_driverless_cars_make
24. The legacy of the Deep Blue (IBM) chess win vs a grandmaster http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-man-vs-the-machine-fivethirtyeight-films-signals/
25.Why Dangrous Symbols Can’t Last Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOEqzt36JEM
26.https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think
27.https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_rosling_ronnlund_see_how_the_rest_of_the_world_lives_organized_by_income
28.https://www.ted.com/talks/erica_stone_academic_research_is_publicly_funded_why_isn_t_it_publicly_available
29.https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_the_surprising_science_of_alpha_males
30.https://www.ted.com/talks/leila_takayama_what_s_it_like_to_be_a_robot
31.https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road
32.https://www.ted.com/talks/max_tegmark_how_to_get_empowered_not_overpowered_by_ai
33.https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting_better_or_worse_a_look_at_the_numbers
MISC – nice but not for the Journal
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYC-HKl4RPU&feature=youtu.be
Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature! – an interesting idea in the intersection of quantifications, enviro science, economics, etc
Case study in smartest Jeopardy contestant (besides a computer) = https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_jennings_watson_jeopardy_and_me_the_obsolete_know_it_all
Cell animators: art and science overlaps: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_bolinsky_animates_a_cell
if you are using ethics: https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_effective_altruism
what are the value of performance artists? https://www.ted.com/talks/marina_abramovic_an_art_made_of_trust_vulnerability_and_connection?language=en
? = https://www.ted.com/talks/marlene_zuk_what_we_learn_from_insects_kinky_sex_lives?language=en
naming of concepts: https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary OR https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_curzan_what_makes_a_word_real
IF YOU NEED ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE EXAMPLES: https://www.ted.com/talks/carl_safina_what_are_animals_thinking_and_feeling
Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door | Talk Video | TED.com – I really liked it, but I am an English major. He’s entertaining/funny
Defense of rationalism; semi-comic; OR John Lloyd inventories the invisible | Video on TED.com OR
Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
Damon Horowitz: We need a "moral operating system" | Talk Video | TED.com – intro to ethical systems and philosophy
Gender bias in drug dosing: https://www.ted.com/talks/alyson_mcgregor_why_medicine_often_has_dangerous_side_effects_for_women
https://www.ted.com/talks/casey_gerald_the_gospel_of_doubt
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18326395 = Matt Dawkins case study as transgender athlete
Watch Any TED video by Hans Rosling
Other video suggestions to search for on TED site (if you want to do journal on one of these SEE ME first): : TED | Talks | Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics (video), Hans Rosling (2010 or all of them), Hanna Rosin (future for girls),Noreena Hertz (when experts are wrong), Michael Shermer 2010, Cameron Herold (how to be an entrepreneur), Golan Levin, Jonathan Haidt (science study of liberals vs conservatives), Dennis vanEngelsdorp (bees), Patricia Burchat, Aguera y Arcas (Photosynth), Schwartz, Goleman, Dennett, Dawkins, Mayne, Levitt, Koontz, Woldhek, Baraniuk, Surowiecki,; Barber (on foie gras) – all @ TED TALKS = http://www.ted.com/talks?gclid=CJuKzIio5o0CFQUoZAodf0m01A
OTHERS THAT ARE MORE LIFE LESSONS but very worth watching before graduating:
· Steve Jobs graduation speech at Stanford http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html )
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo [Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture 12million views]
· https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_dinsmore_how_to_find_work_you_love?language=en
OTHER videos to consider
PICK ONE [probably don’t watch them in order…try to watch them all before Tuesday]:
TECHNOLOGY/how we access info/store knowledge, etc video that relates to the material from the last week of class:
- Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future | Talk Video | TED.com – he is a long-time expert on tech progress
- WE ALMOST ALWAYS WATCH THIS ONE IN CLASS; VERY USEFUL about law and technology and ownership of ideas and innovations: https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity
- Like the Lessig video, another pro-“remix culture” perspective: http://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html
- Or the positive perspective on tech: Coursera or online-education courses: http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html
- Sherry Terkle and the anti-technology view of how tech disconnects rather than connects: http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
- Google N-gram (language evolution and ethnography): EREZ LIEBERMAN AIDEN: What we learned from 5 million books | Video on TED.com (Mark Pagel or Erin McKean or Kuhl is also good for language TOK essay people)
- Technology in how we access/see “art” content: Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web | Video on TED.com or his 2016 one https://www.ted.com/talks/amit_sood_every_piece_of_art_you_ve_ever_wanted_to_see_up_close_and_searchable (ALSO CAN CONSIDER https://www.ted.com/talks/chance_coughenour_how_your_pictures_can_help_reclaim_lost_history
- Medicine and technology: Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that | Video on TED.com OR Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine | Video on TED.com
- (historical but probably not best option) EMERGING TECHNOLOGY/PARADIGMS/GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTION/HISTORY LESSON ON TECH: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com – the history of the web
- Avi Reichental: What’s next in 3D printing | Talk Video | TED.com – a case study in a paradigm shift
- Not sure where to place this: DARPA and emerging technology of the 21st century and the ethics of its use or military use: http://www.ted.com/talks/regina_dugan_from_mach_20_glider_to_humming_bird_drone.html
- Can a computer write poetry: https://www.ted.com/talks/oscar_schwartz_can_a_computer_write_poetry
- Holograms and Haptics (computer games): https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_kipman_the_dawn_of_the_age_of_holograms OR one on augmented reality https://www.ted.com/talks/meron_gribetz_a_glimpse_of_the_future_through_an_augmented_reality_headset
- The future of virtual reality https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_milk_the_birth_of_virtual_reality_as_an_art_form
- The flying machines of the future https://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_meet_the_dazzling_flying_machines_of_the_future
16 60 Minutes - The Data Brokers – if you were interested in PBS Generation Like video about the TOK issue of data mining social media users
17 PBS Generation LIKE (might show later in class) 50 minutes: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/
18 PBS NOVA: The Smartest Machine on Earth (IBM’s Watson; 50 minutes):
19 ALSO: a history lesson in the building of the Wikipedia knowledge community (from 2005): The birth of Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales on TED.com | TED Blog
20 - 60 minutes - Power of Google 2018
21 TED - We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
22 TED - Beware online filter bubbles
23 60 minutes - Faceprints and personal privacy
24 TED - why our screens make up less happy
25 PBS Frontline - DIgital Nation from 2010
26 60 minutes - are robots hurting job growth 2013
27 TED Maurice Conti - incredible inventions of intuitive AI
OTHER TED VIDEOS:
1. HUMAN SCI/REASON/HOW WE PRIORITIZE AND DO DECISION-MAKING (quite interesting; can stop video at min 24): Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions [ there is a Dan Gilbert 2004 video too if you like this one]
2. Algorithms/Race/Predictive Knowledge/Sociology: https://www.ted.com/talks/cathy_o_neil_the_era_of_blind_faith_in_big_data_must_end
3. How we subjectively place value on things (he did the books: Decartes Baby; Just Babies; How Pleasure Works): Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure | Video on TED.com
2b = Then try (he’s funny): Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man | Video on TED.com and Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff | Video on TED.com
4. BRAIN SCIENCE/BRAIN DEVELOPMENT/ETHICS/PSYCHOLOGY [COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE or if you liked the baby brain lab]: Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds | Video on TED.com
(slightly related: Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? | Video on TED.com)
5. BRAIN SCIENCE/Subjective Experience of unique sense perception moment (we have shown this in class and people loved or hated it but certainly remembered it; her book is pretty good too): Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight | Video on TED.com
6. BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS (if you liked the PBS Mind over Money video or the Sway or Nudge or Predictably Irrational books)/IRRATIONALITY/ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY: Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours | Video on TED.com
5b = Then watch = Tali Sharot: The optimism bias – which deals with another behavioral economics trap/self-delusion (PROMPT6)
7. The power of all human mind’s in the capacity of MEMORY; the nature of ACQUISTION OF KNOWLEDGE: http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do.html
8. FOR FUTURE MED STUDENTS: BAYESIAN RATIONALITY VS. USING OTHER METHODS IN THE PROCESS OF DIAGNOSIS: Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch | Video on TED.com
(if you like then try Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery | Video on TED.com if you wish)
(or consider https://www.ted.com/talks/atul_gawande_want_to_get_great_at_something_get_a_coach )
9. SENSE PERCEPTION/VISUAL TRICKS/TESTING CLAIMS: Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see | Video on TED.com
10. MUSIC/INTELLIGENCE INVOLVED IN REAL-TIME COORDINATION/RAP/fMRI analysis of creativity: Charles Limb: Your brain on improv | Video on TED.com 2010
10b = Then try his Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle | Video on TED.com 2011 (deals with cochlear implants and how ex-deaf perceive music) (can watch Benjamin Zander: Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music | Video on TED.com too or Jose Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution | Video on TED.comor Julian Treasure TED videos)
11. ARTS/PHOTO/EMOTION/ETHICS: David Griffin on how photography connects us | Video on TED.com
(maybe for art/photo as history/historian:) Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world | Video on TED.com
(maybe too: https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_peschak_dive_into_an_ocean_photographer_s_world )
12. Quirky/RACE & CULTURE STUDIES/HISTORY/GLOBALIZATION/FOOD SUPPLY: Jennifer 8. Lee hunts for General Tso | Video on TED.com
13. Weak vs Strong forms of evidence/Bias/Rigging your data/Testing claims in Natural Sciences: Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science | Video on TED.com
13b(maybe then = Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance | Talk Video | TED.com – good on scientific process/approach; an analysis of scientific method in the real world or how we organize the things we don’t know
OR 13c : http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_dare_to_disagree.html
13d: Or Misinterp or reinterp/revisions of neuroscience - Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk | Video on TED.com
14. [for High-minded abstract philosophical students PT1] Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist? | Talk Video | TED.com - semi-comic but very TOK
OR 14b: The history and nature of knowledge/ empiricism / testing knowledge claims (probably the most purely TOK thing on this page): David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | Video on TED.com or an overview of last 100 years of cognitive history James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | Video on TED.com
15. [for High-minded abstract philosophical students PT2 – a bit too academic a college lecture style] Consciousness and the nature of our humanity & BRAIN SCIENCE VISUALIZATIONS TOO: http://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness.html (Daniel Dennett has some TED videos on the issue of consciousness too)
15b ALSO consider https://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness?language=en OR https://www.ted.com/talks/john_searle_our_shared_condition_consciousness
16. Wade Davis 2008 SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY/GLOBAL STUDIES and divergant perspectives/ART/ETHICS/RELIGION: Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual | Video on TED.com (or other speech BUT WE SHOULD WATCH THIS ONE IN CLASS SO…: Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures | Video on TED.com2003)
16B Mark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t | Talk Video | TED.com – for those who might write on indigenous knowledge/people
17. The PARADIGMS we live by and its consequences/LOGOS vs MYTHOS cultures/ETHICS/RELIGION vs SCIENCE: Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify | Video on TED.com
18. Noreena Hertz: How to use experts -- and when not to | Video on TED.com
19. Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend | Talk Video | TED.com – IN 2015, Mrs Murray and Mrs Chance were saying that watching this video might actually save your life
20. Sal Khan of the Khan Academy – the future of how to teach: https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_not_test_scores
21. IF YOU NEED A HISTORIAN: https://www.ted.com/talks/doris_kearns_goodwin_on_learning_from_past_presidents
22. Should you be able to patent a human gene (patent law and ethics/enviro/human life in the Myriad Genetics case)
23. Morality and Driveless Cars: https://www.ted.com/talks/iyad_rahwan_what_moral_decisions_should_driverless_cars_make
24. The legacy of the Deep Blue (IBM) chess win vs a grandmaster http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-man-vs-the-machine-fivethirtyeight-films-signals/
25.Why Dangrous Symbols Can’t Last Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOEqzt36JEM
26.https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think
27.https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_rosling_ronnlund_see_how_the_rest_of_the_world_lives_organized_by_income
28.https://www.ted.com/talks/erica_stone_academic_research_is_publicly_funded_why_isn_t_it_publicly_available
29.https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_the_surprising_science_of_alpha_males
30.https://www.ted.com/talks/leila_takayama_what_s_it_like_to_be_a_robot
31.https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road
32.https://www.ted.com/talks/max_tegmark_how_to_get_empowered_not_overpowered_by_ai
33.https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting_better_or_worse_a_look_at_the_numbers
MISC – nice but not for the Journal
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYC-HKl4RPU&feature=youtu.be
Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature! – an interesting idea in the intersection of quantifications, enviro science, economics, etc
Case study in smartest Jeopardy contestant (besides a computer) = https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_jennings_watson_jeopardy_and_me_the_obsolete_know_it_all
Cell animators: art and science overlaps: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_bolinsky_animates_a_cell
if you are using ethics: https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_effective_altruism
what are the value of performance artists? https://www.ted.com/talks/marina_abramovic_an_art_made_of_trust_vulnerability_and_connection?language=en
? = https://www.ted.com/talks/marlene_zuk_what_we_learn_from_insects_kinky_sex_lives?language=en
naming of concepts: https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary OR https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_curzan_what_makes_a_word_real
IF YOU NEED ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE EXAMPLES: https://www.ted.com/talks/carl_safina_what_are_animals_thinking_and_feeling
Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door | Talk Video | TED.com – I really liked it, but I am an English major. He’s entertaining/funny
Defense of rationalism; semi-comic; OR John Lloyd inventories the invisible | Video on TED.com OR
Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
Damon Horowitz: We need a "moral operating system" | Talk Video | TED.com – intro to ethical systems and philosophy
Gender bias in drug dosing: https://www.ted.com/talks/alyson_mcgregor_why_medicine_often_has_dangerous_side_effects_for_women
https://www.ted.com/talks/casey_gerald_the_gospel_of_doubt
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18326395 = Matt Dawkins case study as transgender athlete
Watch Any TED video by Hans Rosling
Other video suggestions to search for on TED site (if you want to do journal on one of these SEE ME first): : TED | Talks | Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics (video), Hans Rosling (2010 or all of them), Hanna Rosin (future for girls),Noreena Hertz (when experts are wrong), Michael Shermer 2010, Cameron Herold (how to be an entrepreneur), Golan Levin, Jonathan Haidt (science study of liberals vs conservatives), Dennis vanEngelsdorp (bees), Patricia Burchat, Aguera y Arcas (Photosynth), Schwartz, Goleman, Dennett, Dawkins, Mayne, Levitt, Koontz, Woldhek, Baraniuk, Surowiecki,; Barber (on foie gras) – all @ TED TALKS = http://www.ted.com/talks?gclid=CJuKzIio5o0CFQUoZAodf0m01A
OTHERS THAT ARE MORE LIFE LESSONS but very worth watching before graduating:
· Steve Jobs graduation speech at Stanford http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html )
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo [Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture 12million views]
· https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_dinsmore_how_to_find_work_you_love?language=en
OTHER videos to consider
Fri Aug 30 - Gandhi samples
Wed/Thurs Aug28+29:
The podcast: Radiolab - Right to be Forgotten episode
Sample Q1 prompt on this topic:
Before the internet, newspaper stories involving individual citizens might be forgotten in the span of 48 hours or left to the microfilm archives, but with the rise of digital storage and Google searches the traces of your life (good and bad) may be easily found forever.
Write an essay in which you take a positions on the factors an agency or newspaper board should consider when making determinations about who is worthy of forgiveness for past misdeeds when they make a "request to be forgotten".
Or Write an essay in which you explore the criteria or rules that should be formalized for when we have the right to be forgotten online (or when negative stories about citizens should be anonymized or expunged from public record).
Source 1 - intro to the podcast
Source 2 - Google loses its case on "right to be forgotten"
Source 3 - doctor & medical negligence case ruling
Source 4 - stats on requests for "right to be forgotten"
Source 5 - trying to hide your scandalous past
YOUR TASK:
Imagine the participants in the below articles/case studies made a request to be forgotten (or to have their names removed from the article or the article removed from the newspaper website & google searches). Imagine you were on the newspaper review board and make your ruling on whether they have the right to be forgotten. Carefully consider multiple lines of argument as to why.
Group 1 = Florida Man story 1 - pick one
Group 2 = Florida Man story 2 - Holly Hill father & fire
Group 3 = Finance - FL HS bookeeper steals money
Group 4 = Public official misdeed (cop) - 2 case studies in this one - pick one
Group 5 = Clergy/teacher misdeed
Group 6 = A politician/celebrity's family member story - Jeb Bush's wife "steals" clothes
Group 7 = Sexual misdeeds / false convictions: PICK ONE: Marcus Dixon case OR BRIAN BANKS story
Group 8 = Muslim student clock incident in 2015 or Teenage shenanigans
The podcast: Radiolab - Right to be Forgotten episode
Sample Q1 prompt on this topic:
Before the internet, newspaper stories involving individual citizens might be forgotten in the span of 48 hours or left to the microfilm archives, but with the rise of digital storage and Google searches the traces of your life (good and bad) may be easily found forever.
Write an essay in which you take a positions on the factors an agency or newspaper board should consider when making determinations about who is worthy of forgiveness for past misdeeds when they make a "request to be forgotten".
Or Write an essay in which you explore the criteria or rules that should be formalized for when we have the right to be forgotten online (or when negative stories about citizens should be anonymized or expunged from public record).
Source 1 - intro to the podcast
Source 2 - Google loses its case on "right to be forgotten"
Source 3 - doctor & medical negligence case ruling
Source 4 - stats on requests for "right to be forgotten"
Source 5 - trying to hide your scandalous past
YOUR TASK:
Imagine the participants in the below articles/case studies made a request to be forgotten (or to have their names removed from the article or the article removed from the newspaper website & google searches). Imagine you were on the newspaper review board and make your ruling on whether they have the right to be forgotten. Carefully consider multiple lines of argument as to why.
Group 1 = Florida Man story 1 - pick one
Group 2 = Florida Man story 2 - Holly Hill father & fire
Group 3 = Finance - FL HS bookeeper steals money
Group 4 = Public official misdeed (cop) - 2 case studies in this one - pick one
Group 5 = Clergy/teacher misdeed
Group 6 = A politician/celebrity's family member story - Jeb Bush's wife "steals" clothes
Group 7 = Sexual misdeeds / false convictions: PICK ONE: Marcus Dixon case OR BRIAN BANKS story
Group 8 = Muslim student clock incident in 2015 or Teenage shenanigans
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AP Lang / TOK articles to consider: List 1 & List 2
AP Lang / TOK Books to consider reading (will be a 4th quarter task)
AP Lang / TOK Documentaries to watch (OR easier to stream list of stuff) - will be a likely 2nd semester task
@SCHSTOK on twitter for other non-fiction articles/issues to explore; consider following some of the better content providers that I follow
once finished go to main page and start with links at top of the site
EXIT SLIP for Aug 27 (10pts)
AP Lang / TOK articles to consider: List 1 & List 2
AP Lang / TOK Books to consider reading (will be a 4th quarter task)
AP Lang / TOK Documentaries to watch (OR easier to stream list of stuff) - will be a likely 2nd semester task
@SCHSTOK on twitter for other non-fiction articles/issues to explore; consider following some of the better content providers that I follow
once finished go to main page and start with links at top of the site
EXIT SLIP for Aug 27 (10pts)
Thurs Aug 22 - AP 06 Q3 brainstormings
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just an FYI - 36 other questions to consider
just an FYI - 36 other questions to consider
Day 1 Google Form intro survey - 10 pts
Day 1: take these epistemology/philosophy surveys/tests:
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Version 2
Schools of Philosophy quickly explained
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Version 2
Schools of Philosophy quickly explained
Day 1 : The Advanced Placement English Language and Composition course aligns to an introductory university-level rhetoric and writing curriculum, which requires students to develop evidence-based analytic and argumentative essays that proceed through several stages or drafts. Students evaluate, synthesize, and cite research to support their arguments. Throughout the course, students develop a personal style by making appropriate grammatical choices. Additionally, students read and analyze the rhetorical elements and their effects in non-fiction texts, including graphic images as forms of text, from many disciplines and historical periods.
The Advanced Placement English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers and writers through engagement with the following course requirements:
Writing expository, analytical, and argumentative compositions based on readings representing a variety of prose styles and genres
Reading nonfiction works, including essays, journalism, science writing, autobiographies, and criticism, selected to provide students opportunities to identify and explain an author’s employment of rhetorical strategies and techniques
Analyzing graphics and visual images both in relation to written texts and as alternative forms of text themselves
Developing research skills and the ability to evaluate, use, and cite primary and secondary sources
Conducting research and writing argument papers in which students present an argument of their own that includes the analysis and synthesis of ideas from an array of sources
Citing sources using a recognized editorial style; in this case, Modern Language Association format
Revising their work to develop a wide-ranging vocabulary used appropriately and effectively;
A variety of sentence structures, including appropriate use of subordination and coordination;
Logical organization, enhanced by techniques such as repetition, transitions, and emphasis;
A balance of generalization and specific, illustrative detail; and
An effective use of rhetoric, including tone, voice, diction, and sentence structure.
In May, all students are required to take the College Board Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Exam, which is comprised of multiple-choice and free-response questions that assess essential skills covered in the course curriculum, including reading comprehension of rhetorically and topically diverse texts, rhetorical analysis of individual texts in isolation, and synthesis of information from multiple texts. Many colleges and universities award college credit based on the score attained on this exam.
The Advanced Placement English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers and writers through engagement with the following course requirements:
Writing expository, analytical, and argumentative compositions based on readings representing a variety of prose styles and genres
Reading nonfiction works, including essays, journalism, science writing, autobiographies, and criticism, selected to provide students opportunities to identify and explain an author’s employment of rhetorical strategies and techniques
Analyzing graphics and visual images both in relation to written texts and as alternative forms of text themselves
Developing research skills and the ability to evaluate, use, and cite primary and secondary sources
Conducting research and writing argument papers in which students present an argument of their own that includes the analysis and synthesis of ideas from an array of sources
Citing sources using a recognized editorial style; in this case, Modern Language Association format
Revising their work to develop a wide-ranging vocabulary used appropriately and effectively;
A variety of sentence structures, including appropriate use of subordination and coordination;
Logical organization, enhanced by techniques such as repetition, transitions, and emphasis;
A balance of generalization and specific, illustrative detail; and
An effective use of rhetoric, including tone, voice, diction, and sentence structure.
In May, all students are required to take the College Board Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Exam, which is comprised of multiple-choice and free-response questions that assess essential skills covered in the course curriculum, including reading comprehension of rhetorically and topically diverse texts, rhetorical analysis of individual texts in isolation, and synthesis of information from multiple texts. Many colleges and universities award college credit based on the score attained on this exam.
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